Car-Part.com
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:
- Search - car-part
- 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 "Trading Partners" 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. |
| Tip |
| If the Search Online button is greyed out, make sure you go to Edit --> Options --> Company Info and set the yard's type (Car + Medium Duty Truck. |
Upload
The upload application needs to be in the %systemdrive%\pkzip\ directory, setuph.exe will put the files there for you.
- Run setuph.exe
- Run carpart.exe
- Enter the customers login info
- The site name should be "compatible.car-part.com"
Note, if the export doesn't seem to be working from ITrack, you may need to merge new car-part files in.
- Follow the above steps.
- Find the newpkzip folder with the other car-part files.
- Unzip the newpkzip files to c:\pkzip. Overwrite files when prompted. Car-part should now export correctly.
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 numbers 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.
