We used to use public/master list products concept which looks beautiful but not flexible for business, now we give up this implement, we're changing to duplicate product categories and will introduce a CLOUD concept like Ariba's cloud suggestion to help customers on products.
-----邮件原件----- 发件人: Rajesh Mallah [mailto:mallah.raj...@gmail.com] 发送时间: 2018年3月20日 6:13 收件人: user@ofbiz.apache.org 主题: Re: modelling a marketplace with multiple sellers and buyers > > My Question is: is the below linkage of products to PartyID ( seller) > PartyID --> Facility --> Store --> Catalog -> Product Category -> Products. > feasible? ---- (Q1) > I could see that it is possible to relate a Party with each of the above entities via Entities FacilityParty , ProductStoreRole , ProdCatalogRole , ProductCategoryRole , ProductRole respectively. regds mallah. On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 11:07 PM, Rajesh Mallah <mallah.raj...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > > I am trying to model a use case with many sellers and buyers. > > There is a large intersection in the sets of item that these sellers > shall be dealing with. > > I have gone through some of the resources (documentation) that covers > entities like Categories , Products , Catalog , Store etc. > > My Question is: is the below linkage of products to PartyID ( seller) > > PartyID --> Facility --> Store --> Catalog -> Product Category -> Products. > feasible? ---- (Q1) > > We would want to maintain a Global Category Tree/Hierarchy for all > sellers but I am thinking of duplicating the products from a master > list of products for each Seller (ie, partyID) . As each sellers might > want to add their own version of content (i.e, marketing pitch) for > these generic(OEM) products. > > Eg: A concrete product is lets say a "LED Monitor" under "Electronics" > category , > there can be many manufactures of LED Monitors with their own specs > and variations. > > The idea of having a global category and catalog is to make their on > boarding easier so that they quickly get started by indicating the > items they they would want to copy into their catalogs. > > Q2: Do/Should I also duplicate categories for each seller catalog ? > > any comments/guidance are solicited. > > regds > mallah. >
