On Jun 27, 2009, at 8:43 PM, Cimballi wrote:
Hi David,
Here are more precisions about what I wuold like to do and what I
tried.
To give a concrete example about product and options, imagine you want
to sell tables, the default table is sold with a raw color, and you
can choose an optional color for an extra cost. So, the customer
should be able to order a table and optional options for the table
(from a list of options that are only available for table type
products).
Then, in the order, we should see the table selected by the customer
and all the options that he has also selected.
And from my point of view, the total price of the order should be the
sum of the price of table and of all the selected options. But for now
I don't care about how the price is calculated.
So, first I tried to used product features, I created some data in a
XML file, import it, but when I have an OrderItem for a feature
related to the OrderItem for the product, then in the UI there is an
infinite loop on displaying the order. It's strange because there is
no error, only the request never return. But in this case maybe the
XML file is not correct.
This sounds like a bug. If you could send steps to reproduce it would
be helpful to the community.
So I looked in the UI directly to select features in the order entry
screens, but I didn't found how to do it.
I'm not sure what you mean by this, but again steps to reproduce might
be helpful.
Then, I looked at existing demo data and I saw that it uses
configurations entities. But when I tested it, I saw that when you
select a configuration on adding a product to an order, then later you
didn't see it in the order display screen. The price is calculated
with the configurations, but you don't see which ones were selected.
The configuration data is persisted in the database and is available
for screens to show it. I know that some screens do show it (at least
the shopping cart detail in ecommerce).
Could you be more specific about which screens you would like to have
display the configuration details for an order item that currently do
not? Maybe you'll get lucky and someone reading in will work with you
to get that implemented...
-David
I'm using a recent version, the "ofbiz-rel9.04-2009-05-28-v779496",
but maybe I don't use it well.
Thanks,
Cimballi
On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 9:26 PM, David E Jones<[email protected]> wrote:
To really get into this you mean need to be more specific about
what you
mean by "ordering of products and associated options."
About the functionality you mentioned, or lack thereof rather,
neither of
those are true in the current revision of OFBiz.
Which version/revision are you using?
-David
On Jun 27, 2009, at 7:35 PM, Cimballi wrote:
Hi,
For our business we are trying to model ordering of products and
associated options (like features or configurations).
We first tried to model the options using features, but you it seems
the OFBiz order application doesn't handle them.
Then, we tried to model the options using configurations, but here
it
seems that OFBiz doesn't keep track of them in the order.
So, can you tell what's the best way to manage options when selling
products ?
Thanks
Cimballi
