On 08/07/2013 03:32 AM, Chris Travers wrote:
On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 5:44 PM, Brian Wolf <brian.w...@activustech.com
<mailto:brian.w...@activustech.com>> wrote:
A local electronics distributor has expressed interest in
LedgerSMB. One of their requirements is functionality already
available in Quickbooks. By way of analogy, many people are aware
that GM makes Chevy, Oldsmobile and Pontiac; often GM offers the
same car but gives it a different name in each division. The
electronics distributor wants to be able to add a product (part)
to a sales invoice, but it's name may vary according to which
model / name is in stock. They want the software to pick
whichever is available, and put it on the sales invoice, in a
situation where three products are essentially equivalent.
Is this possible in LedgerSMB? If so, how?
Without customization the closest you could do is remove the
constraint on unique partnumbers (or suffix them without removing the
constraint) and just select from the search screen that comes up.
With the Dojo additions to the UI, I'm thinking a "partselector" widget
can handle this scenario, provide a live Ajax-search on part number
and/or description. Then in the callback we could provide current stock
level and show that in the result set.
So if you have two hard drives, you could have:
hdd-500-sata-7200-1
hdd-500-sata-7200-2
etc
then if you type
hdd-500-sata-7200 you will get a list of these and can select which
one it is. This allows you to do hierarchical searches too (hdd would
list all hard drives, hdd-500 might list all 500GB hard drives, etc).
With customization you could limit the search to those in stock. This
has some significant issues in some cases so is not generally applicable.
This can be handled browser-side, if we can figure out a reasonable UI
for this (perhaps a preference for minimum stock level to show in parts
lookups? A checkbox next to the line item for "show all parts, including
out of stock?")
Cheers,
John Locke
http://www.freelock.com
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