AbleCommerce Shopping Cart Software

I was referred to Mazhar here for this question from one of the tech support guys (Mike), but if anyone else can answer this too somehow that would be good too.

I'm at the install page for the AbleCommerce software and I need to input the proper database information. I currently have the 30-day demo version and am planning to upgrade it once we start plugging stuff into here.

We currently have a database with our company and were told we can import all of our information into the database with AbleCommerce....do we need OUR database information inputted when at the configuration page or is that something we do later. If it's something we do later, what should be put in there then?

I was also informed that "...However importing users into the system can be an issue depending on the encryption method used in the current installation. Some are one way encryptions which are impossible to import."

Is this something that is a choice? What are the details with something like that as this would be a huge issue to our company. We also use the Microsoft Dynamics Nav Database.

I'm fairly new at all of this, more help the better. We would really love to get this thing at least started since we've had a lot of issues already with little errors here and there with our server and vice-versa.

You don't use your database information when you are running the install. You need to either add a new database and use that during the install or if you are just running as a demo, you could use the supplied Able database- it is SQL Server Express. I create a new database manually before the install because there have been a few times I wanted to hook a SQL Express database up with SQL Server Management Studio and have had problems.

Fantastic, thank you very much Didn't want to do something and realize later it was the wrong move! Appreciate the help

Erik

We currently have a database with our company and were told we can import all of our information into the database with AbleCommerce....do we need OUR database information inputted when at the configuration page or is that something we do later. If it's something we do later, what should be put in there then?

You can setup database as told by Judy, AbleCommerce provides the DataPort uitlity for importing data into AbleCommerce. Read following topic from WIKI
http://wiki.ablecommerce.com/index.php/ ... rt_Utility

I was also informed that "...However importing users into the system can be an issue depending on the encryption method used in the current installation. Some are one way encryptions which are impossible to import."

If you know the encryption key and the encryption scheme you used was AES then you can import the users with encrypted passwords and set the privious known encryption key on store and it will work, otherwise first you will need to decrypt the passwords as plain text and then import them. A few days back I provided a code sample to a user that was in same situation. He was able to provide the decryption code and just looking for how to it in CSV
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