Use Application Settings

Use Application Settings

You can configure some aspects of the CUP process through Administration. Items that you can modify in the Catalog section:

Item

Default

Description

UpdatePackageDir

Directory for Catalog Update Packages. The directory must be readable by your web server.

There are two formats for specifying the UpdatePackageDir setting:

Use a folder that is local to the web server machine. For example, you may use the format "C:\Cup\Data". You can use this format without setting up the Windows file sharing on the folder.

Specify the folder in UNC format to reference a folder on a different machine. For example, you could use "\\MyHost\Cup\Data". In this case, you must configure the folder on the MyHost machine to allow the web server to share data.

MaxErrorDisplay

25

Maximum errors to display on completion, 0= All.

This entry is reserved for future use. Altering this value currently has no effect on the catalog update/load process.

RecreateCUPIndexes

True

Recreate CUP indexes to reduce CUP load time. To do this, you must be the database owner.

In order to improve loading performance, CUP creates certain indexes on the CUP tables and drops them when they are no longer necessary. However, when the CUP process is executed as a user other than the database owner, this is not possible. If you execute the CUP process as a non-database owner user, then set this value to False, and execute the stored procedure, CatLoad_CreateIndexes.

StopAfterError

True

Do not process valid rows in CUP if any rows fail validation.

The CUP process validates individual parts in the CUP tables. Any parts that cannot be validated will be flagged. If the StopAfterError option is set to True, and any parts are flagged with an error, then the CUP process will not continue. Set this value to False if it is desirable to process valid parts, ignoring any parts that produce errors.

Item	Default	Description
UpdatePackageDir		Directory for Catalog Update Packages. The directory must be readable by your web server. There are two formats for specifying the UpdatePackageDir setting: Use a folder that is local to the web server machine. For example, you may use the format "C:\Cup\Data". You can use this format without setting up the Windows file sharing on the folder. Specify the folder in UNC format to reference a folder on a different machine. For example, you could use "\\MyHost\Cup\Data". In this case, you must configure the folder on the MyHost machine to allow the web server to share data.
MaxErrorDisplay	25	Maximum errors to display on completion, 0= All. This entry is reserved for future use. Altering this value currently has no effect on the catalog update/load process.
RecreateCUPIndexes	True	Recreate CUP indexes to reduce CUP load time. To do this, you must be the database owner. In order to improve loading performance, CUP creates certain indexes on the CUP tables and drops them when they are no longer necessary. However, when the CUP process is executed as a user other than the database owner, this is not possible. If you execute the CUP process as a non-database owner user, then set this value to False, and execute the stored procedure, CatLoad_CreateIndexes.
StopAfterError	True	Do not process valid rows in CUP if any rows fail validation. The CUP process validates individual parts in the CUP tables. Any parts that cannot be validated will be flagged. If the StopAfterError option is set to True, and any parts are flagged with an error, then the CUP process will not continue. Set this value to False if it is desirable to process valid parts, ignoring any parts that produce errors.

In the tree menu, select Setup | Application Setting.

The system displays a list of variables that you can modify.

Click Edit next to the variable you wish to modify.
Edit information in the Value or Description fields.
Click Save.