Sam, The general idea with OFBiz is that a Product may be in various stores, and may be active or not in each store.
This is usually done by having a catalog associated with the store, and then view and purchase allow categories (or often the same category for both) associated with each catalog. Then basically the product is "active" as long as the product is in that category, within the from/thru dates configured. In addition to these there is a flag on the Product entity to discontinue when inventory is out, which is intended for use as you describe (ie for products to no longer carry). -David On Dec 9, 2009, at 11:17 PM, Sam Hamilton wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I am trying to get my head around product status in OFBiz and its probably > because I dont understand the logic behind OFBiz enough that I am not getting > it so your help would be most gratefully received! > > I am used to ecommerce systems where a product is in the simplest terms > either "active" or "disabled" and this controls if the product is on the > website or not. Sometimes in the past we have expanded this function to > include a status like "clearing stock" to show everyone not to reorder a > product because we are about to discontinue it. What I dont understand is how > to achieve the same from within OFBiz as it does not seem to have a master > product status. > > I did find that a specific inventory item has a status id for on hold or > defective but this wouldn't stop a new requirement being generated in the > system would it? > > Thanks for the help > Sam
