On Friday 29 December 2006 19:40, David E Jones wrote: > This is the million dollar question (sorry for the localized saying). > > There is still some debate about whether we want to continue on the > (unfinished) path of the quantity/amount pair, or just go back to a > fractional quantity on its own. > > Personally I'd much rather see the quantity/amount move forward, but > it is incomplete and so needs some work. I've heard things actually > function if the integer restriction is removed, so that is probably > the easier, but less flexible and future proof, way to go (ie just > tweak it to accept franctional quantities).
It seems to me that fractional quantities (perhaps with a flag that blocks non-integer values for some items) is cleaner. I would think that typically different "amount" type things would show up as actual separate SKUs. For instance, in the lumber example, I would think you would have separate actual SKUs for a 8' and 10' board and that you would not want to ring up 3 8' boards as a 2.4 amount of a 10' SKU. The fractional quantities seem to work for me. I need to try the amount stuff, does that reflect into inventories correctly? How does that part work? -- Ean Schuessler, CTO [EMAIL PROTECTED] 214-720-0700 x 315 Brainfood, Inc. http://www.brainfood.com
