Interchange help and resources

Various interchange demo catalogues, payment modules, UserTags and other goodies.  This section also includes an archive of current and previous Interchange releases.

Last update: 20 January 2006.

The Interchange CVS archive, in a web-based format, that allows you to to browse around.  This link will take you to the current CVS HEAD but you can use the select box at the bottom of the page to change to any branch in the archive.  You can also connect to the Interchange CVS archive directly by following the instructions on the official Interchange Developers' Resources website.

The Interchange development version is now built into an installable tar archive every day at approximately 12:00 UTC (12:00 GMT, 13:00 BST, 07:00 EST, 04:00 PST).  If you'd like to try the very latest version and don't want to use CVS then this is the place to go.  The standard warnings about the stability of "unreleased" development branch snapshots apply.  Please report any problems to the usual places, such as the Interchange users' mail list.

If you use Microsoft Outlook as your email client, you may have noticed that it doesn't exactly feature the most intelligent quoting algorithm;  in fact, it's the silliest one imaginable.  Outlook-QuoteFix can modify Outlook's message composition windows on-the-fly to allow for correct quoting.  People who are unfortunate enough to be lumbered with Microsoft Outlook Express (Outlook's poor cousin) should install OE-QuoteFix instead.  Correct quoting is required when posting followups to articles in the various Interchange mail lists.  Incorrecly-quoted articles are likely to be the subject of complaint from the regular posters, or may simply be ignored.  You have been warned.

The latest Interchange application server documentation.  This is the "FM" that you need to "R".  This manual is one of the most up-to-date sources of Interchange information. 

Last update: 20 July 2005.

List of changes between Interchange releases.

Last update: 08 January 2006.

A small collection of HOWTO-style documents.  In fact, this collection is embarassingly small.  Documentation doesn't write itself, so stop sponging and contribute something to the project.  You know you want to. 

Last update: 13 October 2004.

Links to some of the more "interesting" articles that have been posted to the interchange-users mail list and the Interchange web-BBS system over the years.

Last update: 14 March 2005.

Notes on how to upgrade to Interchange 5 from earlier releases.  A copy of this file is distributed with Interchange 5.0.0 and later versions.  Please read this file, or your local copy, BEFORE upgrading from a version older than 5.0.0.

Last update: 15 April 2004.

Interchange 5.2 admin documentation.

Interchange 5.2 admin documentation provided for "The Software Workshop's" hosting customers.

PIPEX's "WEBSELL toolkit" is a rebranded Interchange 4.8 installation, so their documentation is likely to be relevant to all Interchange 4.8 administrators.

Interchange design notes and specifications.  You may find them interesting, even though they haven't been updated since they were first published.

Last update: 09 October 2001.

One of the best Perl documentation websites.  If you need to find something out about a particular Perl module then the chances are that perldoc.com will have the information you're looking for.

Useful books and reference manuals that everybody should have in their collection.

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This is the official Interchange Development Group IRC chat server, kindly hosted and administered by Cursor Software.  Join the #interchange channel.  Please note that no unattended IRC clients or bots are allowed.  If you're interested in attending "scheduled meetings" then please feel free to email the IRC Operator or raise the subject in either the #interchange channel, or on the interchange-users mail list.  If enough interest is shown then scheduled meetings can be easily arranged.

Archive of articles posted to the official interchange-users mail list.  The archive is updated daily and is searchable.  You can subscribe to the interchange-users mail list by clicking here.  If you use Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express then please read the outlook-quotefix notes (above), and install the utility before you even think about posting to the mail list.

The MARC archive maintains a copy of the interchange-users mail list, which can be found here.

is a very low-volume mail list, which is intended to keep the various web hosts from posting their spam to the interchange-users mail list.  Don't let the low-volume aspect of the mail list fool you - the list is monitored by Interchange consultants and web designers, so feel free to post your requests for paid help.  You can either subscribe to the mail list or simply post to interchange-biz@icdevgroup.org.  The mail list subscribers will post their responses back to you directly, rather than to the mail list.

Please make use of this before asking questions.

The official Interchange developers' resources site.

This site has an installed version of the "Construct" and "Foundation" demos for you to look at.  It also allows access to the default administration system so you can monkey about with the live demo.  If you want to demonstrate, beyond all reasonable doubt, that an Interchange bug exists then try to provide instructions on how it can be made to show itself on the live demo.

This excellent tutorial website, published by Synesmedia, covers subjects which range from "What is Interchange?" and "Interchange basics" through to advanced topics such as "Writing credit card interfaces".

This website contains a few HOWTOs describing topics such as changing the default currency and how to use mod_rewrite etc.

Various Interchange packages, kindly shared by Lyn St George of Zolotek, including a payment module, a new Interchange, a Webmin module and various OS/2-related packages. 

Trust me - there's nothing interesting on this page.