Hi Robert, did I get your approach right? You have one product (printer cartridge, let's say Pelikan ABC), but you want to "invent" multiple products, because they fit into several printers (let's say HP XY and HP YZ)? I don't get why you would want to do that ...
Wouldn't it be much more elegant to have one cartrige and apply some feature called "fits to" and link it to all the applicable printers? You could do some filter logik in the frontend or have those features used within your search. Have a look at ProductFeature* tables to get an impression of that. Product assosiations are used for multiple purposes. You can link one product to another, the type of the assosiation tells things like "this iPhone4 is old, buy an iPhone5 instead" (PRODUCT_OBSOLESCENCE) or "don't like the blue ink of the cartridge? Try this red one instead" (PRODUCT_COMPLEMENT) Have fun! - Sebastian Sebastian Leitner Consultant AEW Lynx-Consulting GmbH Johanniskirchplatz 6 33615 Bielefeld Deutschland Fon: +49 521 5247-0 Fax: +49 521 5247-250 Mobil: +49 160 901 940 45 Kosten senken durch mehrere Online-Shops auf einer Plattform! Wie das mit OFBiz geht zeigen wir Ihnen auf der OpenSource-Entwicklerkonferenz ApacheCon am 08.11.2012 in Sinsheim. Unser Thema dort: "Multi-Store eCommerce with Apache OFBiz". Company and Management Headquarters: Lynx-Consulting GmbH, Johanniskirchplatz 6, 33615 Bielefeld, Deutschland Fon: +49 521 5247-0, Fax: +49 521 5247-250, www.lynx.de Court Registration: Amtsgericht Bielefeld HRB 35946 Chief Executive Officer: Hans-Joachim Rosowski, Michael Seehrich http://www.lynx.de/haftungsausschluss From: "Robert G." <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: 29.10.2012 14:11 Subject: BOM / part list Product Hello, I have the following requirement: The customers within my webshop see: Product A Procuct B etc. in the Background I have like: Product A Product B Product AB Product A and Product B uses the same Product internaly but are shown as different products in the webshop. I.Ex. for printer cartridges, where on fits into several Printer. (Printer cartridge AB fits into Printer A and Printer B) How can I handle, that the product A and B uses the stock and the information of Product AB? I think its like a Part list or Bill of Material, but I do not know how to connect. I used product associacion, but dont know for what it exactly is. about every help I would be happy. Robert -- View this message in context: http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/BOM-part-list-Product-tp4637171.html Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
