2 seperate computers doing design on one site

[Donald Gray]

Is it possible to have 2 different computers uploading data to the same Actinic website?

EG: one machine doing all the donkey work stuffing product up without pricing (because it is not avalable at that time) and the other machine at a different location adding pricing & delivery etc. as & when it is available...

My gut feeling is that it is not possible because of data syncronising problems & one machine uploading can/will overwrite what the other machine has done.

Is there a way?

[Duncan Rounding]

Your gut was right. You would have to pass snapshots between machines - which would mean the whole site would have to be uploaded on receipt.

You could however create an Excel file ready to import and pass that along - import it when all data is available (or modofied) and upload - using the same machine to upload each time.

[Donald Gray]

Thanks Duncan - That was my assumption but not sure if there was a way...

[SilvermaneChris]

Is it possible to have 2 different computers uploading data to the same Actinic website?

EG: one machine doing all the donkey work stuffing product up without pricing (because it is not avalable at that time) and the other machine at a different location adding pricing & delivery etc. as & when it is available...

My gut feeling is that it is not possible because of data syncronising problems & one machine uploading can/will overwrite what the other machine has done.

Is there a way?

We've accomplished it, in a manner of speaking. What we've had to do is delete all products from Copy #2 once they've been exported to Copy #1. That way, Copy #2 isn't overwriting anything because every export only contains data that Copy #1 doesn't have yet.

...if that makes sense. It's created a whole different category of headaches for us, since the data don't seem to match up quite right. We have to do a bit of wrangling the actual raw exported data, but it's working out fairly well right now.