Jonathon,
Jonathon -- Improov wrote:
Jacopo,
So are you planning to do the "Create multiple Production Runs for
Configurable Product" feature? If so, when?
No, I'm sorry but I don't have plans about this at the moment.
If you want me to do it, can
you bring me up to speed quickly so I can put my work back here for
public audit? If I were to do it, I'd probably start with the "creation
of new production runs based on the configuration id" feature.
I'd suggest looking at the ProductConfig* classes (that handle many of
the configuration related tasks):
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ofbiz/trunk/applications/product/src/org/ofbiz/product/config/
In particular:
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ofbiz/trunk/applications/product/src/org/ofbiz/product/config/ProductConfigWrapper.java
is the class that represents a product configuration, so the idea is to
add a new method to it (something like store()) to store the
configuration in the db.
About the data model, here are the entities involved:
ProductConfig
ProductConfigItem
ProdConfItemContent
ProdConfItemContentType
ProductConfigOption
ProductConfigOptionIactn
ProductConfigProduct
ProductConfigConfig
ProductConfigStats
Some of them are still not used by the system; in particular,
ProductConfigConfig is the entity that should be used to store a
particular product configuration.
They are all defined here:
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ofbiz/trunk/applications/product/entitydef/entitymodel.xml
If you want to see how the demo product PC001 is persisted in the db:
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ofbiz/trunk/applications/ecommerce/data/DemoConfigurator.xml
The user interface to edit the above data is here:
https://demo.dejc.com:8443/catalog/control/FindProductConfigItems
During order entry, you can configure a pc both in the ecommerce and in
the order manager application (click on the "configurable pc" category
in the left-hand side and then select the PC001).
Hope this helps,
Jacopo
You mean it takes 0.5 to 1 day of work to do the above feature? Or just
to do the "Copy an existing production run" feature? The above feature
doesn't seem easy.
Yes, the 1 day estimate was about the "Copy an existing production run"
feature; the other one is not so easy, even if there is already a lot of
stuff in place.
Jacopo
Jonathon
Jacopo Cappellato wrote:
Yes, the copy of a production run is not currently implemented (but it
should be a rather easy task, let's say 0.5 to 1 day of work, for a
developer with a good knowledge of OFBiz).
The main reason is that, usually (for non pc - type products) the
production run is quickly created from the bom and the routing (that
both represents the 'template' for the production run).
For pc-like products, the initial plan was to store the configuration
(there is already the entity for this) and then use it in the system
to do various tasks, such as:
- statistics of top sold configurations
- pre-configured items proposed to the customers
- creation of new production runs based on the configuration id (this
is what you would need here)
- planning
- bom explosions
- and, most of all, by storing the configuration there will be no need
to immediately create the production run when the order is created as
is now (having a more flexible system).
Jacopo
Jonathon
