Re: Associating book attribute such as Author, publisher with a product

2007-05-28 Thread Raj Saini
Hi Iain, Thanks for sharing your experiences. I am not using the OOTB UI and I am rendering author and publisher details as simple label and not the drop downs. However, I feel the Product-Party is the best way to go as suggested by David. What is your opinion about using Product-Party

Re: Associating book attribute such as Author, publisher with a product

2007-05-27 Thread Raj Saini
Thanks David. I will work on those directions. Thanks, Raj David E Jones wrote: The most natural structure would be a Product-Party relationship. A more common one for parametric data though is the ProductFeature* stuff. -David Raj Saini wrote: Hi, What is the best way of associating

Re: Associating book attribute such as Author, publisher with a product

2007-05-27 Thread Iain Fogg
Hi Raj, I own a bookshop and use OFBiz. I initially went down the ProductFeature path, but found that performance suffered badly with the out-of-the-box UI (eg, drop downs loading full lists of authors/publishers). I ended up using features for the publisher, but captured the author as

Re: Associating book attribute such as Author, publisher with a product

2007-05-26 Thread David E Jones
The most natural structure would be a Product-Party relationship. A more common one for parametric data though is the ProductFeature* stuff. -David Raj Saini wrote: Hi, What is the best way of associating book attributes such as Author, publisher etc with a product. I am thinking of using