Hi Chris, please see inline:
On Apr 9, 2015, at 1:16 PM, Chris Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > ive actually answered my own question... sort of... the key files that are > of importance from my research are > > AcctgTrans.xml > AcctgTransEntry.xml the above two entries are about General Ledger accounting transaction: AcctgTrans is the header and AcctgTransEntry are the Dr and Cr entries; if you are not planning to use accounting you could even skip them. > ShipmentReceipt.xml This represent the "document" for the receipt; the GL transactions are associated to this document. > InventoryItem.xml > and last but not least > InventoryItemDetail.xml You should create one new InventoryItem for each ShipmentReceipt; then you should also create the InventoryItemDetail with the initial units received; this will trigger a service that will update the InventoryItem.quantityOnHandTotal field. I hope it helps, Jacopo > > the first three are for the creation of the shipment transaction receipt? > im a little confused on this, but i know i cant add to the shipmentreceipt > without creating the receiptid in acctgtrans, and im not sure about the > acctgtransentry entries, if anyone can help please do... > > the latter two are specifically what i am more concerned with and that is > the on hand amount of each part, but is the acctg and ship receipt > necessary to just modify the on hand for the web store? > > any help on this is greatly appreciated > > Chris > > On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 11:35 AM, Chris Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > >> is there a way for me to import an xml file in a similiar fashion to the >> way i can import products from an external database to increase the >> inventory count... you may have seen my previous question about how to >> mass import pictures... I have figured that out with a script that >> combines the functionality of imagemajicks convert function, used through a >> system call from gawk, multiplied over the various picture sizes, and a >> simple text file that enumerated what each picture's associated productid >> was in a line delimited fashion... >> >> I like running a simple text file through a script to automate these ofbiz >> functions as a much simpler way to do batch processing of jobs that already >> are a bit of a task, but having to go into each item and recieve >> inventory... well.... i refurb printers and everyone that i strip apart >> yields about 20-40 parts... multiply that over approximately 20 printers a >> pallet... you get the idea i would ideally have a line delimited or csv >> delimited file that can be processed by gawk into an xml file that i can do >> the load-extdata call from ant with >> >> could i just create a ShipmentReceipt.xml and load that... it just seems >> like that is a marking of the transaction and not the transaction >>
