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aray
Hi Community,

I have a requirement where there are lots of products (upto 50 or more in cases) under each category. Each of them are different but are priced the same with same rules etc. Right now the way seems to be setting up pricing details for each of these products (i.e. default and list price). However, this is painful for 100s of product if done through the user interface which is the preference. To simplify wondering if there is a way to apply some inheritence based on product's primary category. For example if there are no direct price associated can we look for prices associated with the primary category . If that too is not available then recurse further to its primary parent all the way to the top potentially. An example scenario is music download by style / genre all of which are priced the same and there are potentially hundreds or thousands of them. Of course would love to override the price with a direct product price for cases but generally apply a site wide pricing. Is this possible? Do advice if there are simpler ways to model this or perhaps a support already exists.

Thanks in advance
ar
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Re: Category Level Price

Jacques Le Roux
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Why not use a seed data file, with possible proper import process?
It's easy to edit and, I believe, certainly faster than any specific UI, more error prone tough (C/P, etc.)...

Jacques

From: "aray" <[hidden email]>

> Hi Community,
>
> I have a requirement where there are lots of products (upto 50 or more in
> cases) under each category. Each of them are different but are priced the
> same with same rules etc. Right now the way seems to be setting up pricing
> details for each of these products (i.e. default and list price). However,
> this is painful for 100s of product if done through the user interface which
> is the preference. To simplify wondering if there is a way to apply some
> inheritence based on product's primary category. For example if there are no
> direct price associated can we look for prices associated with the primary
> category . If that too is not available then recurse further to its primary
> parent all the way to the top potentially. An example scenario is music
> download by style / genre all of which are priced the same and there are
> potentially hundreds or thousands of them. Of course would love to override
> the price with a direct product price for cases but generally apply a site
> wide pricing. Is this possible? Do advice if there are simpler ways to model
> this or perhaps a support already exists.
>
> Thanks in advance
> ar
>
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Re: Category Level Price

Bilgin Ibryam-2
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Jacques Le Roux <
[hidden email]> wrote:

> Why not use a seed data file, with possible proper import process? It's
> easy to edit and, I believe, certainly faster than any specific UI, more
> error prone tough (C/P, etc.)...
>
>
If you don't want to maintain price information for each product separately,
you could override calculateProductPrice service and introduce your custom
price calculating logic based on categories.

Bilgin


> Jacques
>
> From: "aray" <[hidden email]>
>
>  Hi Community,
>> I have a requirement where there are lots of products (upto 50 or more in
>> cases) under each category. Each of them are different but are priced the
>> same with same rules etc. Right now the way seems to be setting up pricing
>> details for each of these products (i.e. default and list price). However,
>> this is painful for 100s of product if done through the user interface
>> which
>> is the preference. To simplify wondering if there is a way to apply some
>> inheritence based on product's primary category. For example if there are
>> no
>> direct price associated can we look for prices associated with the primary
>> category . If that too is not available then recurse further to its
>> primary
>> parent all the way to the top potentially. An example scenario is music
>> download by style / genre all of which are priced the same and there are
>> potentially hundreds or thousands of them. Of course would love to
>> override
>> the price with a direct product price for cases but generally apply a site
>> wide pricing. Is this possible? Do advice if there are simpler ways to
>> model
>> this or perhaps a support already exists.
>> Thanks in advance
>> ar
>>
>> --
>> View this message in context:
>> http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/Category-Level-Price-tp3380888p3380888.html
>> Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
>>
>>
>
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Re: Category Level Price

Atul Vani
Not sure how good of a solution it is, but you can do it by setting
price rules too (condition:category, action:flatAmountOverride). Though
you will need to create some price data for that to work. But things
will be easily manageable after that.

Thanks&  Regards
Atul Vani
Enterprise Software Developer
HotWax Media Pvt. Ltd.
http://www.hotwaxmedia.com/
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On Thursday 17 March 2011 10:20 PM, Bilgin Ibryam wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Jacques Le Roux<
> [hidden email]>  wrote:
>
>    
>> Why not use a seed data file, with possible proper import process? It's
>> easy to edit and, I believe, certainly faster than any specific UI, more
>> error prone tough (C/P, etc.)...
>>
>>
>>      
> If you don't want to maintain price information for each product separately,
> you could override calculateProductPrice service and introduce your custom
> price calculating logic based on categories.
>
> Bilgin
>
>
>    
>> Jacques
>>
>> From: "aray"<[hidden email]>
>>
>>   Hi Community,
>>      
>>> I have a requirement where there are lots of products (upto 50 or more in
>>> cases) under each category. Each of them are different but are priced the
>>> same with same rules etc. Right now the way seems to be setting up pricing
>>> details for each of these products (i.e. default and list price). However,
>>> this is painful for 100s of product if done through the user interface
>>> which
>>> is the preference. To simplify wondering if there is a way to apply some
>>> inheritence based on product's primary category. For example if there are
>>> no
>>> direct price associated can we look for prices associated with the primary
>>> category . If that too is not available then recurse further to its
>>> primary
>>> parent all the way to the top potentially. An example scenario is music
>>> download by style / genre all of which are priced the same and there are
>>> potentially hundreds or thousands of them. Of course would love to
>>> override
>>> the price with a direct product price for cases but generally apply a site
>>> wide pricing. Is this possible? Do advice if there are simpler ways to
>>> model
>>> this or perhaps a support already exists.
>>> Thanks in advance
>>> ar
>>>
>>> --
>>> View this message in context:
>>> http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/Category-Level-Price-tp3380888p3380888.html
>>> Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>>      
>