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Customizing the Data-Map
Each project is unique. Therefore, you will probably want to customize the Data-
Map at some point to suit your own requirements. Customizing the Data-Map
gives you a lot of flexibility regarding the database tables you need to reference and
the type of functionality you want to set up.
Hooking up the Data-Map to the Source Database
The source database when developing an e-commerce solution is usually a
products table with product information columns (fields) including name,
description, price, etc. The source database table is represented in the first row of
the Data-Map table.
To hook up the data-map to the source database:
In the Content Center, choose the Data-Map table from the list.
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Double click the header on the first row. Rename the row to Source Database
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Table. You can rename it anything you want to represent the database table you
used to create the product pages.
Now you want to enter the appropriate database column (field) names in the
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cells of the first row. Open your source database so you can look at the field
names. An example of a database table in Microsoft Access is shown below.
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