AbleCommerce Shopping Cart Software

I noticed that there is still a Stores table and a store_id field in a number of tables. But other than that, it appears that AC7 is meant to be 1 code base = 1 store. Am I correct in assuming that there is no longer a "Master" admin section, with sub "Admin" sections for each store?

Will the Store_ID always be 1?

Hello,

The store_ID feature has been preserved for future features. In the current iteration of AbleCommerce 7.0 the store_ID will be 1. Master menu is gone along with the overhead associated with it.

Well, the master section is effectively gone. It has become too difficult to implement that kind of functionality when web application permissions become increasingly restrictive and secure. It also runs counter to the kind of deployment that works best with hosted solutions.

StoreID... yes it's still in our database and used by the vast majority of our object code. In theory, multiple stores could be run in the same database, provided they were using separate web applications. But we've never put this into practice, and so it would surely have bugs.

In AC7, the model is much more like one store, one database, one file set. The store ID should always be 1.

Thank you both for your speedy response. Overall, I like what I am seeing in AC7. Keep up the good work.