Christian Carlow created OFBIZ-5393:
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Summary: Improve product features and feature selection order
entry to better handle highly configurable products
Key: OFBIZ-5393
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-5393
Project: OFBiz
Issue Type: Improvement
Affects Versions: SVN trunk
Reporter: Christian Carlow
OFBiz product features and order entry feature selection form should be
improved to better handle highly configurable products. By highly configurable
I mean that I have 30 feature types or more, some of which should be considered
optional and others that have a wide range of possible values.
I'm dealing with purchase orders of glass materials for which multiple optical
properties can be specified as features. The refractive index of the glass is
a very specific decimal number that ranges very narrowly for different
variations of the same glass but widely for different glass products. Because
of this I chose to create a separate productFeatureCategory for every glass
product that gets created instead of a more general "Glass Features"
productFeatureCategory so that the list of refractive indexes will be limited
only to those that apply.
Currently the order entry feature selection form requires all features to
selected before the form can be submitted and the product variant added to the
order. I considered just creating an "_NA_" feature option for the optional
fields but it could become very cumbersome for the user to have to enter a
separate "_NA_" feature option for every individual product created. Also,
when dealing with 30 or more potential features, having to select "_NA_"
repeatedly for optional features would become fairly inconvenient.
Having an "OPTIONAL_SELECT_FEATURE" productFeatureApplTypeId could serve to
indicate that a feature should be considered optional. This could be used to
distinguish between required selections and allow forms to be submitted without
an optional being selected.
Product variants would have to be changed to account for configurations where
some feature values are not assign to a value.
Anyone dealing with configurable products like this?
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