Introduction to understanding Interchange, Open Source Ecommerce solution

Posted September 4, 2004

I built my very first, very basic website with interchange this week. I hope to add things as possible, so that the basic user for this open source E-commerce solution might have some help where it may be lost on similar forums that cover more advanced topics.

In the main interface, under the “content” tab, you will be set by default to the catalog > pages section. You are not able to move from this directory unless you go to the transfer files tab which is also under content. If you click on the page that you want to view, you will come to a screen that will show the different sections of the page, and the different components that are pulled in to create that page on the lower left. If you click on each section tab, you can find out which component you need to edit to update the look you are creating for the client.

Unfortunately, which is why it is open source because you can change the interface as need be, you need to move 3-4 clicks out of the area to the components section to edit them individually. Each component file when ftp downloaded from the site will have a different file name then the variable that is assigned each component in the component section. So take note when you click, content, “component edit” what the name is so that you can click the link to edit the file.