Hi Ruth, When a vehicle is received, they would like to book the vehicle and each of it's main components (Engine, Gearbox, Axles, Body, Etc) into stock:
Vehicle (e.g. StockRef[ABC123] Make[Volvo] Model[F10] Type[4x2 TU] Year[2000]) |- Engine (e.g. ModelId[400E34]) |- Gearbox (e.g. ModelId[5206B]) |- Etc Vehicle (e.g. StockRef[ABC234] Make[Ford] Model[Escort] Type[Sedan] Year[1985]) |- Engine (e.g. ModelId[231AA]) |- Gearbox (e.g. ModelId[345BB]) |- Etc When the vehicle is received whole, the component locations will be the same as the vehicle location. However, when broken, the individual components locations will be different. The customer would like to be able to answer customer enquiries such as: "Do you have any Ford Escort engines (model 231AA) in stock?". The customer would like to also list all stock (vehicle and components) on their website. They do not want ecommerce cart, just a list of available stock. I think I can maybe model the relationship between the vehicle and component as associations, e.g.: Engine (StockRef[231AA]) is an "Actual Product Component" of Vehicle (StockRef[ABC234]) Does this relationship make sense? For storing the attibutes such as make, model, year would feature be the best way? For example, if I create a feature hierarchy: Make (E.g. Ford) | - Model (e.g. Escort) I would also create a feature group for each Make/Model combination to constrain the allowed make model combinations. Does the above approach make sense? Many thanks in advance... Ruth Hoffman-2 wrote: > > Just curious - do they only want to list configurations (like inventory) > or do they intend to sell either the vehicles or parts thereof? > Ruth > BJ Freeman wrote: >> yes. >> Could do it OOTB but a lot of data entry. >> Look at the PC configure for Ideas. >> https://demo.ofbiz.org/catalog/control/EditProductConfigs?productId=PC001 >> Customization would let them build a library of car models then it would >> automatically build the products. >> >> >> snowc sent the following on 8/7/2009 12:14 PM: >> >>> I have some customers that break second hand cars and trucks. When they >>> receive a vehicle for breaking, they would like to enter the vehicle >>> into >>> ofbiz and also input the major components that the vehicle can be broken >>> into. The whole vehicle and the major components will be listed on the >>> ecommerce site. >>> >>> Is this possible? how? >>> >>> Many thank in advance... >>> >> >> > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/product-hierarchies-tp24870315p24981526.html Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
