*Product Database needs to pair with a working Machess Product Server in order to function correctly.
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What is Product Database?
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1. Product Database is the workhorse of Machess product server, whose main task is to store the actual products and deliver them to the end customers.
2. For each product server, it may be paired with more than one product database object. For easy organization, your may store your products among several database if needed.
3. You may pair your Product Database to any Machess Product Server owned by other avatar. Doing so allows you to join the brand or form partnership with other merchants without the need to hand over product with COPY & TRANSFER permissions to 3rd parties.
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Set up your database to pair with product server
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1. If you own a Machess Product Server simply rez the database near the server. If you like to pair your product database with someone's product server. Before you rez it in-world, right click and select Edit then write owner's UUID at the object description. The owner of product server must grant database connectivity from "Owner" to "All."
2. Touch database and select "On Line" to turn on the database. You should see the number of linked database on product server increases.
3. Click the "Inventory" button to view the list of inventory inside the database.
4. To add products, simply transfer products, updaters, vouchers, or notecard into the database. If you like to transfer a large number of items to database, it is recommended you turn off database first in order to avoid any delay.
5. Edit the *List notecard in the product server. If product server is owned by different avatar, you may need to prepare your listing on a notecard and hand it to the owner.
6. Always remember to verify the listing by clicking "INV Check" button on the product server.
7. Set up in-world vendor, updater, or voucher object associated with your listings.
8. The owner of product server may set up the split rate for contributors on the ".Share" notecard inside each product vendor.
