Thanks for your replies. @Ankit: I dont mean that the attribute values are the same for all products within this category, just the attribute-names. As example:
/*Product 1* Attribute1: luminance Attribute1-Value: 2000 Attribute2: Contrast Attribute2-Value: 1000:1 *Product 2* Attribute1: luminance Attribute1-Value: 1500 Attribute2: Contrast Attribute2-Value: 3000:1 / Do you know what I mean? Im looking for a possibility to set the Attribute (or feature, if its better) for the whole category, that i.ex. an employee who add a new product to a category sees on product site which values he has to insert to specify i.ex. the technical data of the product. So The Attributes / Features are not selectable by the customer - these are fixed product features / attributes. I know that features are also possible for user selection (variant products..) and attributes are like fixed details of a product. If this is not possible I think I can do it this way: orientating on category attributes. When a new category attribute (like "contrast") is added, as service will be called to add this attribute to the products as well. Or when I add a product in a category a service checks the attributes of the category before to be available than. But I dont wanna do sth which is maybe ootb in ofbiz, so I need to know the exact differences between features and attributes. I would appreciate any help. thank you. Ankit Jain-2 wrote > > Hi Robert, > > I think features are the better choose, as you mentioned that the > attributes will be same for all the products of a category then you > can use these technical specifications as ProductFeature and associate > to ProductFeatureCategory and then associate this > ProductFeatureCategory to a ProductCategory through > ProductFeatureCategoryAppl. Please have a look to these entity > relationship. > > HTH > > Regards, > Ankit Jain > > > > On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 2:45 AM, Robert G. <gan@> wrote: >> hey guys, >> >> i have a question concerning the use of attributes and futures. >> >> I sell technical products, where I want to show technical specifications >> in >> a table view. just like: >> >> resuolution: 1024x768 >> luminance: 200cd/m2 >> reaction time: .... >> and so on >> >> >> I think attributes are the better choose for it. But I want to set the >> attributes for the whole category, that my employees which create the new >> products, have a template and just need to fill in the data for each >> categorie. On that way they do not have to check all the time the other >> products to get the attribute names. I want that each product has all the >> same attributes in that category and all in the same order. >> >> is that possible? I found attributes for the category, but I think this >> is >> wrong for me, cause they are not shown on the product configuration in >> that >> category. >> >> Has anyone an idea? >> >> Kindly >> >> Robert >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/product-attributes-and-futures-tp4615815.html >> Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > -- View this message in context: http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/product-attributes-and-futures-tp4615815p4635042.html Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.