CasperVend 2/DropBoxes
The dropbox is your product server. You need to have your boxed products, textures, and any informational notecards IN the dropbox, in order for them to be uploaded to the website.
The dropbox needs to STAY REZZED OUT in order for the vendors to be able to deliver your informational notecards or your purchased products - if the vendors can't find the dropbox, they won't be able to deliver the product to your customer!
Organisation
This is entirely up to you.
- It doesn't matter if you use just one box, or many.
- It doesn't matter which items are in which box
- It doesn't matter where your box is in Second Life (caveats: see [[#Placement|Placement]).
There is one organisational limitation that you must be aware of:
- Be careful to give everything a unique name. For example, don't name a texture the same as one of your items - If you have two items with the same name (in different dropboxes), the system assumes it is a delivery backup and may deliver either one!
Placement
It doesn't matter where you put your DropBox. However, there are certain caveats you should be aware of.
- The land must have scripts enabled.
Putting items into your DropBox
- The dropbox only seems no-modify in your inventory. This is due to the dropbox script being no-modify. Once you rez it out, the prim WILL be modifiable and allow you to add contents.
- Rez the dropbox out
- Right-click on the dropbox
- Select "Edit", then go to "Contents" tab.
- Drag your boxed items, textures and any notecards you have ready into the dropbox.
- DropBoxes CANNOT accept a folder AS a folder - it will always assume the contents of the folders are separate products. If you have multiple items for one product, they need to go in THEIR OWN box / bag / shipping crate / package before going in the dropbox.
Limits
DropBoxes are limited to a maximum of 400 items. However, we highly recommend that you keep your boxes below 200 items. Above this number, we have witnessed inventory contents randomly going missing (a Second Life simulator issue).
There's no limit to the number of DropBoxes you can have rezzed.