Your additional use cases bring up the problem with coding information in your product Id. Manufacturer Id, serialized inventory, prefixed product Ids are all aliases. It is generally best for the productId as the primary key to only have meaning to the database and not to the users. This has been brought up and discussed in more detail throughout the ML so I won't rehash it here. But be warned to consider a more comprehensive approach to naming conventions.
--- Adarsh Holavanahalli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the responses. Importing the product IDs is a painful > thing to > teach the normal user. but i guess it will have to do for now. it > would have > been nice if we could have setup the inventory ID prefixes as part of > the > setup file. imagine that this one step will allow barcoded > manufacturing > stickers to be preprinted (for different components) and serialized > inventories to suddenly be more meaningful. > > hope this gets into the wish list of future ofbiz releases > Adarsh > -----Original Message----- > From: BJ Freeman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 3:05 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: ofbiz inventory ID format > > > > just a short note, if you import the product ID thru the webtools. > > you can have any product ID you want. > > then do the rest manually if you want. > > > > Adarsh Holavanahalli sent the following on 5/20/2007 9:50 PM: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Is there anyway to control the format of the inventory item ID in > ofbiz? > > > right now all inventory items start at 10000 or so. is there a way > to add > a > > > prefix or a suffix to the automatically generated item ID? > > > > > > thanks > > > Adarsh > > > >
