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Welcome to the Community Forums at HiveWire 3D! Please note that the user name you choose for our forum will be displayed to the public. Our store was closed as January 4, 2021. You can find HiveWire 3D and Lisa's Botanicals products, as well as many of our Contributing Artists, at Renderosity. This thread lists where many are now selling their products. Renderosity is generously putting products which were purchased at HiveWire 3D and are now sold at their store into customer accounts by gifting them. This is not an overnight process so please be patient, if you have already emailed them about this. If you have NOT emailed them, please see the 2nd post in this thread for instructions on what you need to do
HiveWire 3D Store Officially Closing at the end of Jan 4th (Midnight US Mountain time)
- Thread starter Chris
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Am I missing something? I must be. Just make sure you've downloaded your HW purchases before our store portion is closed the last of January.
Agreed.
I think the trick is to take the sales records, figure out who has an account at 'Rosity and then just do some data entry over at 'Rosity to make sure that all that is there. Then if there are updates to existing products that person will get an update notice from 'Rosity! I know the data entry thing is a pain in the butt and not sure if there is a more automated way to do it but here's hoping!
DanaTA
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There is always an automated way to do it. It just has to be determined what database engine was used for incoming data, and what engine is used for current data. When I worked for Key3Media Events (then creators of the world's largest IT Info conferences and events, like COMDEX Fall), I worked on porting all our data from Visual FoxPro to Oracle. It just takes some researching the two databases to compare the tables and columns and matching them up, transforming/converting data types if need be, then importing the data in batches, first into a dev copy of the database and thoroughly testing, then finally into the production database. I don't know the particular details of either database used, but I know that it's possible in most major database engines.
Dana
DanaTA
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The mass of data would not be like that. That would be done first. Then you (as a database programmer) look at the exceptions. Then you get a list of possible matches, research them, confirm them, and create a match table that would be checked when processing the data for export. A little complicated, but nothing an experienced and competent database programmer can't handle! Of course, a modicum of cooperation from clients/users and appropriate management is helpful!
Dana
Stezza
Dances with Bees
maybe thinking of any future updates to models ... I wonder if Rendo will change usernames ( no charge ) for those that need to or want to match up stuff...
I had problems with my email address over at Rendo so I had to go with an alternate. Should prove fun for me, moving my store and all.
Lissa_xyz
I break polygons.
Other than waiting for this year to be scrubbed from history, we're doing ok. lol Hope you've been doing well yourself.
Taking care like everyone else. I just wish this pandemic would disappear so we can go on with our lives as we did before it showed up.
Hornet3d
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I wish that too, with a vengeance but with the one proviso we learn the lessons for another pandemic is a certainty at some point.
Hornet3d
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The carry over of data would be welcome but just in case I have downloaded all of the purchases. It took a while at fifty plus pages but better than losing them. So now I will have a local copy on a hard drive another on an M disk and a further copy sat in the cloud. May not be necessary but losing the HiveWire3D store is real loss but the thought of losing Dawn is a tragedy of a completely different order.
Hornet3d
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Looking at this from a different viewpoint, losing the Hivewire3D store is tragic and, while not wanting to start any sort of software war, I think it will impact many Poser users far more than DS but think of what might have been. Where would us Poser users be now if Rendo had not purchased Poser from Smith Micro?
DanaTA
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Yes, that would be part of the research, part of the data scrubbing, as it is sometimes called. Comparing each identifying part of the record, seeing if it's actually the same person or not (someone with the username DanaTA has an account on DeviantArt, but it's not me), then finding out from those in charge what the rule will be for such cases. Data import programming will need to take care to avoid duplicate records, etc.
Dana
Lissa_xyz
I break polygons.
IIRC, that's how Daz did it w/ the RDNA buyout. The emails had to match, from there they probably inserted the pertinent purchase data from RDNA's sql tables to Daz's and matched up products ids. Mind you I'm grossly oversimplifying this for simplicity's sake.