Many thanks Pierre. This is very useful information. BTW, I was referring to 
vol 1 of the book series.

Regards,

Emad

> On 29 Jan 2022, at 2:59 PM, Pierre Smits <pierresm...@apache.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Emad,
> 
> Which volume of Silverston's books are you refering to (there are multiple).
> 
> Anyway, the handling of products and their components (parts, ingredients,
> etc) is covered by the Apache OFBiz project. Both in entity definitions and
> services/functions.
> 
> In the entity definitions we cover this through the ProductAssoc entity,
> that defines the rationship between a product (identified by the productId
> field) and multiple other projects (identified by the productIdTo field).
> Classifiaction of that relationship is further enhanced by the
> productAssocTypeId field.
> 
> You can best experienc how this is done in OFBiz (with use of demo data)
> via:
> 
>   - in the catalog application: e.g.
>   
> https://localhost:8443/catalog/control/ViewProductManufacturing?productId=MOTHER_BOARD_ASS
>   - in the catalog application:e.g.
>   
> https://localhost:8443/catalog/control/EditProductAssoc?productId=MOTHER_BOARD_ASS
>   - in the manufacturing application:
>   https://localhost:8443/manufacturing/control/FindBom
>   - in the manufacturing application: e.g.
>   
> https://localhost:8443/manufacturing/control/EditProductBom?productId=MOTHER_BOARD_ASS&productAssocTypeId=MANUF_COMPONENT
> 
> 
> Met vriendelijke groet,
> 
> Pierre Smits
> *Proud* *contributor** of* Apache OFBiz <https://ofbiz.apache.org/> since
> 2008 (without privileges)
> Proud contributor to the ASF since 2006
> *Apache Directory <https://directory.apache.org>, PMC Member*
> 
> Anyone could have been you, whereas I've always been anyone.
> 
> 
> On Sat, Jan 29, 2022 at 1:24 PM Emad Radwan <eradwan1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hello Community,
>> 
>> Regarding this issue, I found in Silverston's book that he has a table
>> called 'Product_Component' that handles such situations under 'Products and
>> Parts' section in chapter 3 on page 100. I understand that we don't have
>> such a table in Ofbiz data model so I'll appreciate it if someone can guide
>> me on how this situation is handled.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Emad
>> 
>> On 2022/01/27 13:29:08 Emad Radwan wrote:
>>> Hello Community,
>>> 
>>> I have a scenario where I need to define a service but that one will
>> include products also; think of a car maintenance shop where the service is
>> the 5k maintenance and the included products are the spare parts.
>>> 
>>> Where can I handle this in the GUI?
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> 
>>> Emad
>> 

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