David,
As I understand from Jacques issue descriptions:
1. Price set for Virtual product in USD
2. Price set for related Variant product in EUR
3. Price for Variant is not used at all.
If that's the case, it is a bug.
I haven't tested this out.
Jacques, is the above correct?
Jonathon
David E. Jones wrote:
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
