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Christian Carlow commented on OFBIZ-5400:
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To give some perspective about why I created this patch, I'll explain the
circumstances.
The company regularly has orders for order items that are supposed to be
scheduled for 10 or more ship groups. Users found it difficult to manage ship
group information using the existing forms. The users need to be able to
easily associate order item quantities with the correct ship group and it
becomes very difficult to correctly do so when 10 or more ship groups exist.
For example, the shopping cart page that allows order item quantities to be
associated with ship groups does not provide the ship group information
necessary for users to distinguish them from one another. The ship group
number is the only information provided for distinguishing between the ship
groups on the page but the shipBeforeDate is the most important information my
users need for distinguishing between the ship group and determining which
order item quantities apply and that information doesn't get specified until
the optionsettings.ftl page.
Another issue is with the optionsettings.ftl page. It becomes very long as
ship groups are added. With 10 or more ship groups it become less and less
manageable.
> Improve order application to better handle complex ship groups
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>
> Key: OFBIZ-5400
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-5400
> Project: OFBiz
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Affects Versions: SVN trunk
> Reporter: Christian Carlow
> Attachments: OFBIZ-5400.patch, OFBIZ-5400_0.patch
>
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> The order entry form should be improved to better handle orders with complex
> shipments. Its difficult to use the current order entry forms for entering
> ship group information when dealing with 10 or more ship groups with
> different destinations, carriers, shipment methods, and dates.
> Improvements should include:
> 1. Allow ship groups to be edited even if the cart is empty
> 2. Allow the address, carrier shipment method, and shipping dates to be
> specified on a single page instead of relying on three separate pages
> 3. Allow items to be assigned to ship groups when creating or updating. The
> order items page of existing orders already provides this functionality by
> allowing quantities to be specified for each ship group for each order item.
> Similarly, ship groups should be listed with quantity fields for each item
> when more than one ship group exists so that items can be assigned to ship
> groups directly when added or updated.
> 4. Allow ability to assign items directly to ship groups to the form on the
> order edit page that allows appending of items to existing orders. Existing
> items already have this ability so it should be expanded to this form as well.
> 5. Allow ability to reorder the ship group sequence. Having the ability to
> control the sequence of the list of ship group quantity fields would be very
> useful if the other functionality is implemented. This would allow for
> example, a ship group with a date that falls between existing ship group
> dates to be resequenced to fall between those respective ship group dates
> when listed for order items.
> 6. Allow ship groups to be deleted/removed. Adding a fromDate and thruDate
> to the OrderItemShipGroup entity could provide this functionality. Logic
> would have to check to ensure that no order items have been assigned before
> removing the ship group.
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