Hi Hans, I can't see what in my notes would prevent from doing this, since you have already added the fixedAssetId to the InventoryItem entity (as a side note, I would have preferred the other way round, i.e. if the field inventoryItemId was added to the FixedAsset entity)?
Regards, Jacopo On Oct 5, 2011, at 6:01 AM, Hans Bakker wrote: > 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. >
