On 21/04/2010, at 10:59 AM, Adam Heath wrote: > Adrian Crum wrote: >> Scott Gray wrote: >>> On 21/04/2010, at 10:46 AM, [email protected] wrote: >>> >>>> Author: doogie >>>> Date: Tue Apr 20 22:46:14 2010 >>>> New Revision: 936100 >>>> >>>> URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=936100&view=rev >>>> Log: >>>> Add a releaseDate to a product, mostly informational, intended to mean >>>> when the product was first assembled for purchase, or, for books, when >>>> it was published initially. >>> >>> You could always consider adding this description to the field >>> definition. >> >> Wouldn't that make more sense in an inventory item? Our houses have >> release dates (when they are ready to ship) but they are inventory items >> - not products. > > There's no inventory available to be purchased yet, so no inventory > record can possibily exist. This is a completely different situation > then an book being under current publication, but out of stock. > > We use this field to filter products from display, within a window of > 4 months into the future, and allow users to back-order the product > before it has been published.
So would it be correct to say that in your situation: introductionDate + 4months = releaseDate? So you can buy a product as soon as the introductionDate has passed but the user is informed that it won't be shipped until at least the releaseDate?
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