Thanks David & Jacques - going away to read and inwardly digest!
Cheers
Sam
On 10/12/2009 18:16, David E Jones wrote:
The catalog manager searching, and operations based on search results, help a
lot in this area.
Usually the view/purchase allow categories are actually setup by searching for
all products in a certain category tree (ie in a category or any of its
sub-categories) and then adding all of those products to the view/purchase
allow category.
Finding expired/etc products can also be done with searches.
-David
On Dec 10, 2009, at 7:23 AM, [email protected] wrote:
Hi David,
Thanks for the reply, I spotted the product discontinue flag now you explained
it and thats a great help.
I had a look round the demo install but could not see an example of a product
categorised in both view and purchase - did I miss the right product? Do you
mean by this that there are two identical category structures one for viewing
only (a way of recording the correct location of the product) and the other is
if the product should say active on a website ready for sale. Then if there is
a problem with the product then it can be removed from the sale category and
its no longer on the website?
If thats the way to disable products then I suppose after a period of time
quite a few would end up in view only categories and a method would be needed
to find and list out these products? Something like products not discountinued,
with stock in view cateogory only - excuse the ramble just thinking aloud.
Many thanks!
Sam
-----Original Message-----
From: "David E Jones"<[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, 10 December, 2009 14:38
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Product Status?
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
