I don't see any problem here.

The code looks for price information on the product. If no price information for a certain type, currency, etc is not found and the product is a variant it will find the corresponding virtual product and look for the price information there.

What else could/would it do?

What is the bug here?

-David


On Feb 1, 2007, at 12:50 AM, Jacques Le Roux wrote:

Finally, I want to make an abstract of what I understand :

Variants herit prices from virtual.
Variants may override prices from virtual, hence have different currencies than virtual. But this last functionnality (regarding currency at least) is not working yet.

Is that correct ? If yes, I will open a Jira issue for this peculiar case where I will propose to restrict currency in variants to
virtual's, for the moment.
Of course I understand that in a perfect world we should support different currencies for different variants. But I guess this can wait... Because I'm only reasoning at the businness level for the moment. And I guess at the technological level things may be less
clear.

Thanks for your attention

Jacques

Jonathon,

Jacques,

I was asking myself, in a principe of reality, if we should not, for the
moment, restrict variants currencies to their virtual's.

Agreed. This will tie up that "loose end". Rather than having "undefined behavior" (for multiple currencies), we should at least let users know that their virtual products' currencies count and the related variants' don't. Or better yet, prevent users from using a different currency for
variants.

Later was what I was suggesting. it's easy to do, in one word : pragmatic ! I think I will create at least a Jira issue for this
if
nobody disagree (with strong arguments ;o)

A sticky issue: which currency/price takes precedence, variant or virtual?
I'd say variant prices should override virtual.

Yes variants should override. But has this a sense ? Because virtuals are never used as product, they are abstract (in Oriented Object sense). So I wonder if having a currency different for virtual and variants have a sense. Having variants with different currencies is another problem...

Hmm. In OO sense, it doesn't make sense that virtuals have a price even.

Yes true, but difficult to manage because product UI is generalised and morevover because of your point below.

However, in
user-interface sense, users would want to have a "standard price" set for all variants, for ease
of use if for nothing else.
Hence, I can see why some users might want to tie currency/price to virtuals.

Yes true, OO heritage ;o). So remains the case of different currencies for different variants. But is that realistic (this is a
real
question for real people) ?


Well, at least we share/discuss what we know so that others can grab our info and enhance OFBiz,
though we ourselves have no time to fix this issue. :P

We may hope so, but I would prefer to do job because else I will wait for sure. I just want to know if nobody see drawbacks in
arguments above, or have better ideas  ?


Thanks

Jacques


Jonathon

Jacques Le Roux wrote:
Jonathon,

From: "Jonathon -- Improov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I think David's point about supporting multiple currencies is valid, ie OFBiz should operate that way. It'll be nice to be able to use different currencies for different variants (eg. some sold in
some countries but not in others).

Yes I totally agree.

However, I strongly suspect that's not exactly how it works now.

I agree too. Yes for the moment people wanting to deal with multiple currencies create a store by currency, I guess.

Let me know if anyone needs me to
help in research; my current project doesn't handle more than 1 currency... yet.

I would create a Jira issue for this. This is not a priority for me either. And I suspect that it may be a large task to do.
So
that's why I was asking myself, in a principe of reality, if we should not, for the moment, restrict variants currencies to
their
virtual's.

A sticky issue: which currency/price takes precedence, variant or virtual? I'd say variant prices
should override virtual.

Yes variants should override. But has this a sense ? Because virtuals are never used as product, they are abstract (in
Oriented
Object sense). So I wonder if having a currency different for virtual and variants have a sense. Having variants with
different
currencies is another problem...

Thanks for your thoughts

Jacques

Jonathon

Jacques Le Roux wrote:
Do you mean that it should work like I tried to use it or that we should make it work, or ?

Jacques

----- Original Message -----
From: "David E. Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 10:45 PM
Subject: Re: Problem in Virtual products


The point is to support prices in multiple currencies simultaneously...

-David


On Jan 31, 2007, at 1:41 PM, Jacques Le Roux wrote:

Finally after my apologies I thought a bit about this. Should we not restrict variants currency to the one set in virtual ? Because even if someone set variants prices to another currency it will not
be used. And this can fool an user as I have been.

What do you think ?

Jacques

Sorry,

I used euro and not dollar for variant prices. So yes, you are
right Jacopo and sorry

Jacques

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jacques Le Roux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 5:02 PM
Subject: Re: Problem in Virtual products


Jacopo,

From: "Jacopo Cappellato" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Jacques Le Roux wrote:
Vamsi
When I am selecting configuration it is not showing the
product price with
configuration.
AFAIK there are no specific prices for variants. If you set a price for a variants this will have no effect. The price set
for
the
virtual product will be used.

I'm pretty sure that the variant price is used if set, it will
appear as
soon as you add the variant to the cart.
I tested it before by creating a default price for WG-9943- B3 and
it was not applied but the virtual price was applied. BTW the
virtual had also Competitive and List Prices. So I just tested by
adding Competitive and List Prices to the variant WG-9943-B3
same
result.

Am'I missing something here, promotions, prices rules ?

Jacques

Jacopo







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