What are you proposing?
Currently products are constrained by special categories associated
with the catalog, through the ProdCatalogCategory entity. On that
entity there is a prodCatalogCategoryTypeId field and there are
various options for it. If you want to limit the products that can be
viewed, then you must setup a "View Allow" category. If you want to
restrict the products that can be added to the cart then you must
setup a "Purchase Allow" category.
If you don't setup those types of categories, then the catalog can be
used to view or purchase any product, and that is how it is designed
to function.
Are you (and everyone who commented in favour of this) saying that you
want to change that behavior? I guess a more general question is what
exactly (in terms of data model and default behavior for different
data being present or missing) are you proposing to change?
I apologize for the confrontative nature of this message, but it seems
like it is all based on a misunderstanding of how the current model
works (which can be seen be testing with the different catalogs in the
current demo data, or looking at the code).
-David
On Apr 29, 2009, at 12:36 AM, Ashish Vijaywargiya wrote:
Hello,
Today I created a Sales Order in OFBiz. Then a question came in my
mind. Sharing the same with you all.
On the first screen I provided "DemoCustomer" in "Customer" field.
On next screen we have option to select Order Name, PO Number,
Currency & Choose Catalog (All are optional.)
This is all good.
Now suppose I selected "Demo Catalog" (remains selected as default
option) then in next screen we have option to select "Product" and
its quantity.
I see the Product Lookup shows all the products either it is
associated with "Demo Catalog" or "Test Catalog".
After this I added a new Product in the "TSTLTDADMIN" category that
is associated with the catalog "Test Catalog".
The new product is also shown in the Product Lookup.
Is it correct behavior ?
In my opinion we should only show the products that are associated
with the selected catalog (in my case I selected "Demo Catalog").
Thoughts ?
--
Ashish
