Hi Giulio,
You have been more than helpful to help me understand this,
Regarding the “Browser Root”, it seems like there are different Product
Category Types (Best Selling, Catalog, Search, …) which I see defines the
categories that are directly linked to catalogs in different Product
Catalog Category Types (Browser Root, Promotion, Quick Add, Default Search)
For Example in the “Demo Catalog”, in its Categories, there is a category
called “CATALOG1” of Browser Root, and that category is of Product Category
Type “Catalog”, and I see it act as a parent of two other categories of Ids
100 and 200 which both are also of Category Type “Catalog”, which goes on
to create a Tree of categories
Does it mean that the Product Category Type of Catalog is also like a
group of categories per se ,.. ?
If so, one would directly wonder what is the role of other Product
Category Types (Best Selling, Search, Tax, Quick Add, Google Base,
Industry, Internal, ... )?
Thank you again,
Best Regards,
On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 7:20 PM Giulio Speri - MpStyle Srl <
[email protected]> wrote:
Hello Serge,
in OFBiz there is not a direct association between a ProductStore and
products, instead ProdCatalog, ProdCatalogCategory, ProductStoreCatalog,
ProductCategory and ProductCategoryMember entities are used to achieve
this
goal.
You can see the ProdCatalog as a collector of categories: the one that is
physically associated with a product store is the ProdCatalog through the
entity ProductStoreCatalog.
A product catalog is composed by a hierarchy of categories where the first
(root category) always has to be of type "Browse Root" (PCCT_BROWSE_ROOT).
This is managed by the entity ProdCatalogCategory.
Under the "Browse Root" category you can then build your own custom
hierarchy of product categories and associate the product to each one of
it; ProductCategory is the entity used to define a category and a product
is associated to a specific category through the entity
ProductCategoryMember.
*In short*:
ProductStore/Catalog assoc : ProductStore -> ProdCatalog ->
ProductCatalogCategory (Browse Root)
Browse Root Category/Product categories:
- ProductCategory (Browse Root)
-- productCategory_1 -> Products (through ProductCategoryMember);
-- productCategory_2 -> Products;
---productSubCategory_2_1 -> Products;
---productSubCategory_2_2 -> Products;
-- productCategory_3 -> Products;
In the online backend demo of OFBiz you can start following this structure
from the Catalog Manager -> Stores, pick up a store and then open the tab
"CATALOGS".
You will find different examples of stores and catalogs with different
categories associated, that can give you a good starting point on the
store/catalog/category/product OOTB mechanism.
I hope I have been helpful.
Kind Regards,
Giulio
Il giorno lun 25 ott 2021 alle ore 16:30 Bs Serge <[email protected]>
ha
scritto:
Hi,
I was browsing through the catalog module and I could not find any
product
and store relationship.
I would assume products are supposed to belong in a certain store!
Kindly enlighten me on how OFBiz handles products and stores
relationships,
or point me to a link that explains it.
Thanks,
Best Regards,
--
Giulio Speri
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