Ah and thanks for the reply, sounds like this could help me:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-1887 BJ Freeman wrote: > > may not help but I remember something last year about setting the > inventory to Y and N making a difference. > about the time the drop shipper code was put in. > don't have time to go dig it out > > > madppiper sent the following on 6/9/2009 12:07 AM: >> Digging deeper into the logic, i got the following setup that perhaps >> helps >> to demonstrate the problem i got: >> >> I created a virtual product with >> >> salesDiscWhenNotAvail ="Y" >> requireInventory="N" >> taxable="Y" >> chargeShipping="N" >> autoCreateKeywords="Y" >> isVirtual="Y" >> isVariant="N" >> productTypeId="FINISHED_GOOD" >> >> and added a set of variant products to it, each differing in size and >> color. >> >> I now got a parent product (complete with productId) and differing >> physical >> products that are pointing towards this parent. Our warehouse reports to >> us >> the QOT of all the physical items, that way we have all of the physical >> items with an inventory > 0 and the virtual product (or parent item) with >> an >> inventory = 0. I am now trying to display only the virtual products to a >> customer where the inventory of their physical items in total is > 0. In >> addition, I want to allow the user to shop this very item, as long as >> there >> are variants available. However, on my ecommerce application I am >> receiving >> an error for such items, as long as I don't set "requireInventory" to "N" >> (which doesn't really make sense to me, as a virtual product should, by >> definition, never even have an inventory - at least thats how i >> understand >> the product page in the docs). >> >> How can I solve this issue without a draining performance loss? (I know >> that >> I could use the getProductInventoryAvailableFromAssocProducts service, >> but >> that requires another delegator call previous to the service itself and >> seems rather slow at the whole) >> >> >> >> madppiper wrote: >>> Heya, >>> >>> I noticed that I am receiving a "not available" message on the ecommerce >>> platform for a virtual product if it doesn't have a sufficient QOT. >>> However, any ProductAssoc associated with this product has a QOT > 0, so >>> there really shouldn't be a problem as the user buys one of the assocs >>> not >>> the virtual product itself (just as with the Giant Widget - the user >>> should be able to purchase the giant-widget-b3 variant even if the >>> giant-widget has nothing on stock). >>> >>> Is this a common problem or is there an easy fix to this? >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Paul >>> >> > > -- > BJ Freeman > http://www.businessesnetwork.com/automation > http://bjfreeman.elance.com > http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=1237480&locale=en_US&trk=tab_pro > Systems Integrator. > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/QOT-for-virtual-products-tp23931046p23937977.html Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
