Hi Jacopo, thanks for you comment. I did look into this but decided to not duplicate data in the system.
In the case where assets for maintenance and depreciation is not connected with a serialized inventory item we will have a number of fields duplicated (cost, serial number etc) and we do not know where the asset is stored in inventory when not in use. Regards, Hans On Mon, 2011-10-03 at 12:35 +0200, Jacopo Cappellato wrote: > Hi Hans, > > I have read the threads and the blog posts, and considering the requirements: > > * the need to maintain (serialized) inventory items and ship/receive them > * the need to depreciate the items as assets > > I am wondering if you have considered the design of: > > * using product/inventory items (mostly) as in standard OFBiz (add to cart > products then reserve,pick,ship inventory items then return product/item) > * using fixed assets only for the depreciation > > Without looking at the details (and I guess I may be missing some of them) > this seems to me a simpler approach that would have caused a smaller impact > in the existing code. > > Kind regards, > > Jacopo > > On Sep 27, 2011, at 4:59 AM, Hans Bakker wrote: > > > Thanks Adrian and Paul for the valuable comments. > > > > Taking all comments into account, we will do the following: (most is > > already done) > > > > 1. a single product can refer to one or more assets. (as is now) > > 2. An asset can refer to a single inventory item. (is added) > > 3. With this product type, the assetid will be shown on the orderitem, > > picklist and shipping slip which also will show the RA# (return auth #) > > 4. the item can be received in the facility -> receive return option. > > > > more info at: > > http://www.antwebsystems.com/control/ViewBlogArticle?contentId=91048 > > > > Regards, > > Hans > > > > > > On Fri, 2011-09-23 at 12:20 +0700, Hans Bakker wrote: > >> Now we can have rental products where the asset can be rented.... > >> > >> In this product type the product is a group of video rentals of the same > >> rental price referring to many video assets. > >> > >> However now we also want to categorize these assets in order to display > >> them on the e-commerce website. > >> > >> Is adding a fixedAssetid field to the ProductCategoryMember entity a > >> solution? > >> > >> > > > > -- > > Ofbiz on twitter: http://twitter.com/apache_ofbiz > > Alternative ofbiz website: http://www.ofbiz.info > > http://www.antwebsystems.com : Quality services for competitive rates. > > > -- Ofbiz on twitter: http://twitter.com/apache_ofbiz Alternative ofbiz website: http://www.ofbiz.info http://www.antwebsystems.com : Quality services for competitive rates.
