From: "David E Jones" <[email protected]>
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).
Or even here
http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBENDUSER/Apache+OFBiz+Business+Setup+Guide#ApacheOFBizBusinessSetupGuide-catalogCategoryProductSetup
BTW I wonder if we should not add a reference to this document (and maybe some
other setups) at
http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBADMIN/OFBiz+Documentation+Index#OFBizDocumentationIndex-ConfigurationDocuments ? Without answers I
will do...
Jacques
-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
