The catalog manager searching, and operations based on search results, help a lot in this area.
Usually the view/purchase allow categories are actually setup by searching for all products in a certain category tree (ie in a category or any of its sub-categories) and then adding all of those products to the view/purchase allow category. Finding expired/etc products can also be done with searches. -David On Dec 10, 2009, at 7:23 AM, s...@sh81.com wrote: > Hi David, > > Thanks for the reply, I spotted the product discontinue flag now you > explained it and thats a great help. > > I had a look round the demo install but could not see an example of a product > categorised in both view and purchase - did I miss the right product? Do you > mean by this that there are two identical category structures one for viewing > only (a way of recording the correct location of the product) and the other > is if the product should say active on a website ready for sale. Then if > there is a problem with the product then it can be removed from the sale > category and its no longer on the website? > > If thats the way to disable products then I suppose after a period of time > quite a few would end up in view only categories and a method would be needed > to find and list out these products? Something like products not > discountinued, with stock in view cateogory only - excuse the ramble just > thinking aloud. > > Many thanks! > Sam > > -----Original Message----- > From: "David E Jones" <d...@me.com> > Sent: Thursday, 10 December, 2009 14:38 > To: user@ofbiz.apache.org > Subject: Re: Product Status? > > > Sam, > > The general idea with OFBiz is that a Product may be in various stores, and > may be active or not in each store. > > This is usually done by having a catalog associated with the store, and then > view and purchase allow categories (or often the same category for both) > associated with each catalog. Then basically the product is "active" as long > as the product is in that category, within the from/thru dates configured. > > In addition to these there is a flag on the Product entity to discontinue > when inventory is out, which is intended for use as you describe (ie for > products to no longer carry). > > -David > > > On Dec 9, 2009, at 11:17 PM, Sam Hamilton wrote: > >> Hi Guys, >> >> I am trying to get my head around product status in OFBiz and its probably >> because I dont understand the logic behind OFBiz enough that I am not >> getting it so your help would be most gratefully received! >> >> I am used to ecommerce systems where a product is in the simplest terms >> either "active" or "disabled" and this controls if the product is on the >> website or not. Sometimes in the past we have expanded this function to >> include a status like "clearing stock" to show everyone not to reorder a >> product because we are about to discontinue it. What I dont understand is >> how to achieve the same from within OFBiz as it does not seem to have a >> master product status. >> >> I did find that a specific inventory item has a status id for on hold or >> defective but this wouldn't stop a new requirement being generated in the >> system would it? >> >> Thanks for the help >> Sam > > >
