Thanks for your comments, BJ. Please see my comments inline.
On Jun 24, 2009, at 4:23 PM, BJ Freeman wrote:
So why do you want to force a shipment if you don't have the product?
I do not want to force shipment but I want to understand this feature in OFBiz.
you get a back order notice that is in the communications.
Do you think this is the right way to see the back order in the system, I think No.
I can use hasBackOrders flag on find order screen to find out all the back order in the system but orders will show up only before doing a forcefully packing.
in our solution, you have a back order tracking system. part of it is tonotify when a particular order is complete and ready for Shipment. then when you go to the shipment page, you can ship normally.
I am not sure if I understand it correctly. I will look around the code to see what exactly you are referring to as a back order tracking system.
No need for force shipment. Vikas Mayur sent the following on 6/24/2009 3:10 AM:Hi,I placed an order for 10 items, of product WG-5569. All the items wereback ordered. Now when I try to pack this order, I got the following warning.The Following Errors Occurred: Attempt to pack order failed.Packed amount does not match reserved amount for item (WG-5569) [10 /0.000000]Now onwards the Complete button on Pack Order screen changes to Force Complete. This is fine till now. When I click Force Complete, the order is packed and a shipment is created with items being issued.Inventory item was not available to actually pack this order and which is then forcefully packed just for updating the records in the system.Is there any way in OFBiz to keep track of such orders (or shipments) which are packed actually later on when inventory is available? What I need to do is to hold such shipments until these orders are actually packed. Vikas-- 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.
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