Dear All, I stumbled across an interesting issue when setting up product categories for biomedical equipment:
If you look at the 2011 WHO Core Medical Equipment <http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/95788/1/WHO_HSS_EHT_DIM_11.03_eng.pdf> documentation, there is, for instance, a product category called: "Analyzer, Laboratory, Hematology, Blood Grouping, Automated", which can be translated nicely into a category tree. However, there are currently two "standards", UMDNS and GMDN, that mean the same, yet have different naming conventions, plus give a code to each of their very own terms. Example: UMDNS equivalent: Analyzers, Laboratory, Hematology, Blood Grouping, Automated UMDNS code: 16817 GMDN equivalent: ABO/Rh(D) Blood Grouping Analyser IVD, Automated GMDN code: 56712 That is close enough for aliases of a given category term, but we also need a fields for the respective standards' codes. Would it be possible to attach the attribute and attribute categories facility to the product categories, so that for each category we could define aliases and coses for each alas, PLUS a code for the category term itself? I would otherwise see some serious issue in using Tryton for "standardised" products, especially, if there are several "standards" competing with each other, as is often seen in high-value environments, such as health. Any thoughts? Thanks a lot, indeed - Chris
