If I understand right we are talking about an inventory item that is
split into multiple locations. For that it sounds like we need more
than one inventory item, perhaps one normal item and one with a new
inventory item type that would be a sub-item to the main one (which
could point to a BoM type sub-product, or just have a description of
the part that is in there).
-David
On Aug 9, 2009, at 9:18 PM, Bob Morley wrote:
Yes I think I posed that original one in haste. When I started
doing the
work yesterday for it I quickly realized that it would make much
more sense
to leverage the statusId on an inventory item. So what I ended up
doing was
extending the facility entity to have a defaultLocationSeqId.
This change I did in our own hot-deploy because I was unsure if it is
something that has community appeal. From memory I believe most of
the
Ofbiz screens would ask for a location using a lookup field (and would
accept blank). In our UI we are more apt to use a dropdown for
locations
with-in a facility so the default lends itself nicely to pre-
populating the
dropdown (blank is allowed).
Do you think it makes sense to extend Facility in this way? If so I
can
replace my entity-extend with a modification to Facility and make
the minor
change to the add/edit form and provide the patch. Naturally, its
value
would not be used anywhere initially ... Do you think there is value
in
doing this?
Jacopo Cappellato-4 wrote:
Hi Bob,
another thing you could consider to use (or expand) is the statusId
in
the InventoryItem: there should be already code in place that ignore
(for reservations etc...) items based on their status.
Then you could implement some user friendly screens (or even business
processes) to manage the status of the inventory items in a given
location (or a defaultStatusId for all the items in the location);
during stock moves you could change status of items to make them
ready
for sales.
Regards,
Jacopo
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