Was going to write more but I guess I should at least get something
out!
My general opinion is that the order screen enhancements are a better
approach. I don't think we need or want quotes to be so complex and
try to reproduce the incredible amount of stuff in the order model
and functionality.
-David
Jacopo Cappellato wrote:
In my opinion, one of the areas in which OFBiz could be greatly
improved
is the order editing process in general.
The existing services and screens are well suited for sporadic
changes
to already created orders, but they are not good enough when you
need
more control over what you are doing or for use cases where orders
are
big and complex and they are created and edited in multiple
sessions.
I see two good path we could follow (and they are not mutually
exclusive):
1) improve/enhance the edit quote screens; this will mostly address
the
use case of complex orders; all the work will be done in the quote
and
when it is good enough it will be transformed into a real order;
however
we will need to enhance many aspects of the quotes (to take into
account
billing/shipping addresses, geo rules, taxes, shipping costs
etc...)
2) create new screens (e.g. adding new subscreens to the view order
screen) and services to edit order items, adjustments, addresses
and
contact mechs, payment preferences and payment transactions,
shipment
groups and reservations, etc...
For #2, in order to have a greater control of what is happening, I
think
we should find a way to disable all the services running by ecas;
the
best way of doing this is probably that of using a special flag (or
status) on the order to mark it as a "work-in-progress/on hold": if
the
order is in this status no eca will run; as soon as the flag/status
will
be removed all the checks/ecas will be executed and all the issues
will
be shown in an screen ("issues with the current order") so that the
user
can fix them before releasing the order.
Does it make any sense?
Jacopo
