Leigh, This was done in v6 to minimize the number of steps needed to initialize a new database. Creating/Importing the list of products is one of these steps, and it used to be quite cumbersome. Imagine you're a small business with a tiny list of products. Providing a default umbrella product category means that you can immediately import a list of products via CSV and start using OpenERP right away, without even needing any existing product categories (say your product catalog was previously an excel sheet, common enough).
Now, I understand that this could be a source of errors later in the process, when new products are introduced in an already configured system. But if you want to get rid of this default, you should be able to simply delete the "All Products" category and be done with it (it will not be reinstalled during a later OpenERP update as it is specifically written to be created only for new databases). If that does not work, then I agree we have an annoying bug. Perhaps we could also improve the implementation by making the default "umbrella category" work like a user-defined default value (same effect as in right-click > "set as default" on the field), instead of hardcoding it in the default_category() function. But the effect would be quite similar, and you would still need to delete the category in your case (or override it with another default one) What do you think? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of C2C OERPScenario, which is subscribed to the OpenERP Project Group. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/816097 Title: product do not want default category Status in OpenERP Modules (addons): Opinion Bug description: OpenERP REQUIRES that there is a DEFAULT product category. I do NOT want a default product category, I want the field to remain empty (and blue, because it is required) to force my users to select their product category. This is the only place that we have found where a default is required (the default is hard-coded to be the ALL PRODUCTS category), and this behavior is not consistent with the rest of OpenERP. The fix requires a re-write of the following function. The code containing 'cat0' should not exist at all - it sets the default category to be (the reference to) cat0 if no default exists - it should return nothing if no default exists. _default_category(self, cr, uid, context=None): if context is None: context = {} if 'categ_id' in context and context['categ_id']: return context['categ_id'] md = self.pool.get('ir.model.data') res = False try: res = md.get_object_reference(cr, uid, 'product', 'cat0')[1] except ValueError: res = False return res To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/openobject-addons/+bug/816097/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~c2c-oerpscenario Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~c2c-oerpscenario More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
