On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Justin Robinson <[email protected]>wrote:
> Firstly I'd just like to say thanks to the list for the little tips, > insight, and resource suggestions with regards to minilang...had > finally got my head round it & find it a really cool feature of ofbiz > making certain jobs quicker and easier to write and debug. > > I've just started on defining products in the catalog, so I haven't > read all available resources yet. But from what I've seen so far > looking at configurable products the product type determines to some > extent how the product is handled and what options are available. > > From what I can tell the 'Catalog Manager' is purely ofbiz, which is a > relief(I hope I'm right about this & don't put my foot in it again) > because I have to say the opentaps forum hasn't been much help so far, > they are quite selective on the sorts of things they do help with. > This mailing list and it's archives are generally way more > informative. > > I work for an ISP so most of our products have to be along the lines > Configurable Digital Service Products, is it possible to combine these > product types or do products have to be of one type only? > A product can be only of one type, so you have to do some custom coding in order to make configurable products also digital. > > Secondly with the Configurable product hierarchy, is it possible to > have a Virtual product that contains Configurable products, that in > turn contains config items? Or some other way to configure products > that are made up of other configured products. > This is not possible OOFTB, mostly because of complication in rendering such a UI. What is possible is to have virtual products as configurable product options. > > Lastly since most of our services are charged monthly, it would seem > that subscriptions suit our needs best since they can be automatically > renewed, is it possible to define configurable subscriptions? > I have used configurable product reordering by using shopping lists. I expect that extending it for subscriptions should not be hard. > > I don't expect a full explanation I'm just wondering if these aims are > achievable, before I venture forth and maybe where to start would be a > great help to. > Thanks. > > > HTH Bilgin Ibryam > -- > Regards, > Justin > Venture-Net Research & Development >
