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Car-part grabs inventory from ITrack based on interchange number, make and model, and maybe (or maybe not) a few more things.  If the interchange number were wrong, Duff and Brad are fairly sure that would NOT cause the export to fail outright - it would just make stuff not show up on car-part.
Car-part grabs inventory from ITrack based on interchange number, make and model, and maybe (or maybe not) a few more things.  If the interchange number were wrong, Duff and Brad are fairly sure that would NOT cause the export to fail outright - it would just make stuff not show up on car-part.


There is no way to search around inside an ITrack database for stuff that is hanging around in ITrack but not showing up on Car-Part for whatever reason.  That's because we really don't have access to Car-Part's tables - there's just a tool they made that knows how to access ours.
There is no way to search around inside an ITrack database for stuff that is hanging around in ITrack but not showing up on car-part for whatever reason.  That's because we really don't have access to car-part's tables - there's just a tool they made that knows how to access ours.

Revision as of 12:46, 1 March 2010

Car-Part.com is a company that runs a web site which indexes car parts for car yards across the US.

Software

Car-Part.com distributes software that allows ITrack users to export parts from ITrack to Car-Part.com, as well as to search the Car-Part.com database from ITrack. So there are two main parts to Car-Part:

  1. Search - car-part
  2. Upload - pkzip
Tip
The Car-Part applications are in the 'ITrack - Tech Support - 3rd Party Software' directory on File.

You will also need the company's car-part login info, which you can get one of the following ways:

  • In Kung Fu
  • Asking fellow ISoft Employee to see if they have a copy of login info
  • Emailing a car-part representative (Cristi at car-part dot com)

Search

(Car-part calls this "fkey" to confuse you.)

Place all of the car-part files in the %systemdrive%\car-part\ directory.

Run the Config.exe application:

  • In the Inventory Management System drop down menu select ISoft
  • Enter the Username, Password, and Site information that has been provided for you.
    • The site name is usually something like: trade<some_number>.car-part.com
  • The other fields are not required
  • Save the Settings

Run windows_update_fix.reg

When a user clicks the car-part button on the search screen of ITrack, it launches this app. ITrack passes in the search criteria and the car-part app launches the search in their web browser.

Tip
If the customer is using Vista/Win7, and the Car-Parts Search is having problems loading - use Firefox instead.

Upload

The upload application needs to be in the %systemdrive%\pkzip\ directory, setuph.exe will put the files there for you.

  1. Run setuph.exe
  2. Run carpart.exe
  3. Enter the customers login info
    1. The site name should be isoft.car-part.com

How It Works

Car-part grabs inventory from ITrack based on interchange number, make and model, and maybe (or maybe not) a few more things. If the interchange number were wrong, Duff and Brad are fairly sure that would NOT cause the export to fail outright - it would just make stuff not show up on car-part.

There is no way to search around inside an ITrack database for stuff that is hanging around in ITrack but not showing up on car-part for whatever reason. That's because we really don't have access to car-part's tables - there's just a tool they made that knows how to access ours.