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How do you remove customers under "Manage Customers"? Had testers create profiles and now need to purge this list for a clean start.

Sorry, I will not sponsor this. It is my opinion that this should be done voluntarily by you, the developer. I hope you will add this soon. One would think that this feature should obviously be part of the shopping cart. Am I making a mistake with this cart?

I will say that the "Manage Customers" screen is, pretty much, useless.

You can't actually edit anything, hitting "Select" next to a customer just takes you to the list of orders.

Just my opinion.

All the customer information is editable on the manage order detail screen. The manage customer screen lists all the customers and allows sorting and filtering to locate and drill into an order. Customers are only added to the database when an order is created so a customer record always corresponds to an order and there is a delete button on the manage orders screen. Adding a delete button on the customer screen would allow deleting only custmer records would orphan orders and payment history records. As you pointed out there are situations where you need to clear out your test data before you go live and as Christian pointed out you can always issue a truncate or delete sql command to clear your table. We will look into adding a delete button on the customer screen in addition to the delete button that already exists on the manage orders screen but we need to do more analysis to make sure it makes sense and that referential integrity in the database is maintained.

-Scott

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Scott Kelly
Project Manager

Craig,
You are correct, adding a delete button on the manage customer screen is doable if the proper validation is written. If you delete a customer with no orders associated with it then allow delete customer. If however there are say 10 orders associated with a particular customer and you delete the customer logically all 10 orders should be deleted as well this is the reason it wasnt added to prevent unintended orders from being deleted accidentally. If we added a delete customer button and there are 10 orders associated with the customer would you want the delete button to delete all 10 orders as well or only allow deleting a customer if no orders are associated?
 

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Scott Kelly
Project Manager