Hello:
I was wondering if someone could help me figure this out, as I’m new to DotNetNuke. My company is in the process of redeveloping its existing site, which consists of both “commerce side” and “community side.” Since we do in excess of 4 million dollars of online sales per year (and growing quite rapidly), we have recently acquired an entirely new commerce system that handles every aspect of ordering, including warehousing, ordering, POS, eCommerce, etc, etc.
We are also developing our site to include community features, as our sales are driven primarily from community interaction, and have had our customer express a strong desire/interest in community interaction between its members. As our site is growing at an extremely fast rate, we have recognized the need for a CMS.
Unfortunately, whatever CMS we use must be capable of pulling user information, such as UserID, Login, Password, and email address from our ecommerce database, to populate the user information on the CMS. My question is this; is there a way to either a.) get the database to populate the user profile information in dnn without corrupting user roles, OR b.) Get dnn to reference the ecommerce database for user information, keeping the member roles information on the dnn database?
Another question I have is; what files in dnn have the database information pertaining to users? I was hoping to find some kind of list with file names in one column, and a description of the files in another, but have not found anything like that, in spite of the obvious benefits such a file would provide, such as being able to easily reference it find specific files that perform specific actions.
Again, any help in understanding this would be appreciated.