Thank you very much for that information, Rishi. I'll go ahead and try a few things out along the path you have suggested.
Jürgen On Sat, 7 Sep 2013 00:20:48 -0500, Rishi Solanki wrote > Hi Jürgen Reinold, > > Please find my responses in line and I'm hopeful it helps. > > -- > Rishi Solanki > Manager, Enterprise Software Development > HotWax Media Pvt. Ltd. > Direct: +91-9893287847 > http://www.hotwaxmedia.com > > On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 2:22 AM, Jürgen Reinold > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > I am trying to configure/modify OFBiz for our business. But I am having > > difficulties modeling our products. Any pointers/suggestions would be > > greatly > > appreciated. > > > > Our products are similar to photo prints: > > > > * Several standard sizes such as 4”x6”, 5”x7”, 12”x18”, … > > > > You will need to use virtual variant model of the product. There are > many product already exists in demo data have the color and size > options with them. Looks like you may only required sizes. > > > > > * We allow custom sizes such as 4.123”x6.321” that are made from the > next > > bigger product (and priced accordingly) > > > > Looks like such product won't be exists in system before they > ordered. At the time of adding a item to cart you can use add non > exists product to shopping cart as shopping cart item and when order > is really placed enter the product into the system from cart. > > > > > * Except for square products, product orientation can be landscape or > > portrait > > > > * Several material options such as matte, lustre, glossy finishes, ... > > > > Above both could be set as features of the product. > > > > > * Several manufacturing options such as sharp or rounded corners, ... > > > > Better to differentiate before manufacturing by adding features to > product. > > > > > * Several bundle options such as just the print, the print ready for > wall > > mount, the print ready for desk display, … > > > > Categories them using ProductCategory. > > > > > And then there are a few unique aspects: > > > > * Each of our products has a serial number that we need to track. Even > if a > > line item has a quantity of more than 1, each product will have a > separate > > serial number. In that case, communication with the customer such as > order > > confirmations should have only one entry/image per line item. > > > > This is ootb available, you may need to look after the serialize and > non-serialize inventory. In you case it should be serialize. > > > > > * In case we have to reprint a product (defects, color did not turn out > > right), the replacement products need to be related to the originally > > ordered > > ones, but should have new and separate serial numbers. > > > > If you maintain the above point then it will automatically handle. > > > > > * We have regular production runs and would like to use the MFG > > functionality, > > but our serialized products are never put into inventory. They ship out > to > > our > > customers right after they have been produced. > > > > Requirement data model and processes could be use here but not sure. > > > > > And then there are the product images. That is my biggest headache. We > > need to > > associate a thumbnail of the customer supplied image with each product > we > > ship. Order related communication and order history needs to show the > > customer > > supplied images for each product. We have URLs for these images and are > > otherwise very flexible in generating and storing derived images. > > > > Assuming, all the custom product will be added as variant in the system > for > some virtual with standard size. Either you can specify them variant > and use specific image content type or you can simply store the url > some where in order item related entities. Either directly in > OrderItem or OrderItemAttribute as you said you will have URLs. > > > > > Any suggestions to how this can be modeled with virtual products, > product > > variants, … would be greatly appreciated. I am not looking for complete > > solutions, just broad strokes. > > > > I assume we will have to implement a custom “make product from customer > > image” > > service that combines predefined virtual/variant products with the > customer > > image and serial number so that OFBiz knows where to get the unique > images > > for > > each product. > > > > Thank you for your help in advance and keep up the great work! > > > > Jürgen > >
