Seperating Orders from Content

[dust]

Is there anyway of Seperating the orders section of actinic from the Content Section. i.e moving it to another computer, maybe on the same network?
So someone can get on with the content, while someone else works on the orders?

Thanks in advance

[Bruce]

You can seperate your Order Processing from the Design and Update or Site maintenance part of the store. To do this you will need to install Actinic on another PC, you can use the same installation file. In order to make it simple to move an entire store from one installation of Actinic to another, there is a built in 'snapshot' feature. A snapshot saves all relevant files and settings into one easily portable file. These 'site files' use an extension of *.acd.

To take a backup of a site go to 'File | Snapshot | Export Site'. This will then guide you through a wizard to help you save all the relevant settings for your currently active site into one file. This can then be implemented onto a second machine by going to 'File | Snapshot | Import Site' on the second machine.

Before you create the snapshot on the original PC you can limit the operations each installation will provide through checking either one of the 'Allow on this PC' options (under 'Business Settings | Options') you can specify whether a particular machine is used just for 'Catalog Maintenance' or just for 'Order Processing'. This means that one PC can just be used to maintain and upload a store to the web site whilst the other machine can be used solely for order processing from that catalogue.

To permanently disable the ability to upload from a machine that is simply processing the orders, remove all the templates from the system (all files of the form Act_*.html)

Kind regards,