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Just use the product catalog for viewmodels. You have the viewmodel that you can change to whatever format you need - either using a template or serialize the viewmodel to json and parse that in something to your required format.

Hi Nicolai,

Thank you for the suggestion. That would be my first attempt as well. What I want to be sure of, is if this approach would work with LivePrices in my version (9.9.x).

Thank you,

Adrian

One more thing.

In the PIM logic, you authenticate the user based on an encoding of the UserID. Can I use this approach with the product catalog for viewmodels?

Adrian

Nope, but you can use login tokens.

It is 2 different contexts and user is context, so they have slightly different ways of working.

I was afraid of this answer :)

The problem with the tokens is the expiration. These customers using the feeds would configure them in their systems for an automatic processing. If they do that and the main user would reset their password (which is very likely) the setup would not work anymore and they will have to go back to the admin panel and copy the token or link again.

I would be very disappointed about a feature like this and I expect they would be as well. That's why I am trying to figure out a better/stable way of authenticating them.

If we don;t have anything built-in that I can use, I would probably have to create some custom approach.

Thank you,

Adrian