Hi Scott,
On May 21, 2008, at 8:16 AM, Scott Gray wrote:
Hi Jacopo
Here's my opinion:
1. a null itemDescription should be fine for returns if it is fine for
orders
Ok, in rev. 658607 I did some changes so that the returns can work
well with null itemDescriptions.
Thanks for your advices,
Jacopo
2. productName should take be more prominent when creating a new
product
than internalName, so that if they are the same then the user can
leave
internalName blank. Then in the back-end apps if internalName is
null then
productName should be displayed
So to clarify, instead of always having internalName set and falling
back to
that for customers, we should always have productName set and fall
back to
that for back-end users.
What do you think?
Scott
2008/5/21 Jacopo Cappellato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Scott, thanks for your comment... I understand your point of view.
The other options we have, if both productName and descriptions are
null:
1) put the productId in the itemDescription (but it seems not a
good option
to me) or
2) fix the code to work well with a null itemDescription
Or we may require that when we create/update the product, the
productName
is set (directly or thru the content... but that would be trickier)
Hmmmm... I'm not sure which one is the best approach... probably #2
Jacopo
On May 20, 2008, at 9:16 PM, David E Jones wrote:
Yes, this is a good point. We probably shouldn't populate
something the
customer sees with text from that field.
-David
On May 20, 2008, at 12:38 PM, Scott Gray wrote:
Hi Jacopo
It doesn't really bother me that much, but it seems funny to me
that the
system would use something explicitly defined as internal for
customer
facing pages. As a user I would expect that the customer would
never see
the contents of that field.
Regards
Scott
2008/5/21 Jacopo Cappellato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Hi all,
I've noticed that the OrderItem.itemDescription is only set if the
product's productName is available; I would like to add code so
that, if
the
productName is not set, then the internalName is used.
I need this because the OrderItem.itemDescription seems to be
required
by
some screens and some of the return procedures (I got errors
trying to
return orders with null itemDescriptions).
Is it ok?
Jacopo
