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OFBiz Catalog & inheritance of products

Schubi
Hi i´m new in the world of OFBiz....

and i have two questions

1. is it possible to sync 2 catalogs and how? i want to have one catalog wich is visible in the shop and one non visibile catalog. so i could put all new products in the non visible catalog and once a day a sync the database....

2. can i inheritance properties from a catagorie in the catalog to a product?

thanks for your help
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Re: OFBiz Catalog & inheritance of products

BJ Freeman
you can put in products that are not in any catalog.
we have catalogs for each supplier for grouping.
Catalogs are not visible unless the are not part of the product store.
however you would need to write a service that would transfer from one
catalog to the other, if you want to do this in mass.


Schubi sent the following on 7/13/2009 11:15 AM:

> Hi i´m new in the world of OFBiz....
>
> and i have two questions
>
> 1. is it possible to sync 2 catalogs and how? i want to have one catalog
> wich is visible in the shop and one non visibile catalog. so i could put all
> new products in the non visible catalog and once a day a sync the
> database....
>
> 2. can i inheritance properties from a catagorie in the catalog to a
> product?
>
> thanks for your help

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Re: OFBiz Catalog & inheritance of products

Ruth Hoffman-2
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Your motivation for wanting to do this may have some bearing on the
answer to these questions. For example, do you simply want to put all
your new products on the website at one time (say 12 midnight?). Or do
you have multiple suppliers/vendors and want each to have a separate
catalog? At some point, you want to merge all the catalogs and all the
products?

What properties would you like to inherit from the category? [Most of
the properties that I normally think of in connection with the category
are really product properties.]

Ruth

Schubi wrote:

> Hi i´m new in the world of OFBiz....
>
> and i have two questions
>
> 1. is it possible to sync 2 catalogs and how? i want to have one catalog
> wich is visible in the shop and one non visibile catalog. so i could put all
> new products in the non visible catalog and once a day a sync the
> database....
>
> 2. can i inheritance properties from a catagorie in the catalog to a
> product?
>
> thanks for your help
>  

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Re: OFBiz Catalog & inheritance of products

Schubi
I will have only one catalog and update the changes only once a day... so that i can put all new products prices and so on over the day in the non visible catalog. Is there any function in ofbiz to do this?

Ruth Hoffman-2 wrote
Your motivation for wanting to do this may have some bearing on the
answer to these questions. For example, do you simply want to put all
your new products on the website at one time (say 12 midnight?). Or do
you have multiple suppliers/vendors and want each to have a separate
catalog? At some point, you want to merge all the catalogs and all the
products?

What properties would you like to inherit from the category? [Most of
the properties that I normally think of in connection with the category
are really product properties.]

Ruth

Schubi wrote:
> Hi i´m new in the world of OFBiz....
>
> and i have two questions
>
> 1. is it possible to sync 2 catalogs and how? i want to have one catalog
> wich is visible in the shop and one non visibile catalog. so i could put all
> new products in the non visible catalog and once a day a sync the
> database....
>
> 2. can i inheritance properties from a catagorie in the catalog to a
> product?
>
> thanks for your help
>  
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Re: OFBiz Catalog & inheritance of products

Ruth Hoffman-2
The last time I looked, there was nothing that allowed you to move
products from catalog to catalog in bulk. It shouldn't be too difficult
to write a service to do that since catalogs & categories exist
independently of products (and product features such as product pricing
& description.) You could then set the new service up to recur every
day, at a time convenient to you.

Or, you could just switch the catalog that is viewable on the website.
You will need to do that manually using the Catalog Manager.

Maybe someone else on the list knows a better way.
Ruth
Schubi wrote:

> I will have only one catalog and update the changes only once a day... so
> that i can put all new products prices and so on over the day in the non
> visible catalog. Is there any function in ofbiz to do this?
>
>
> Ruth Hoffman-2 wrote:
>  
>> Your motivation for wanting to do this may have some bearing on the
>> answer to these questions. For example, do you simply want to put all
>> your new products on the website at one time (say 12 midnight?). Or do
>> you have multiple suppliers/vendors and want each to have a separate
>> catalog? At some point, you want to merge all the catalogs and all the
>> products?
>>
>> What properties would you like to inherit from the category? [Most of
>> the properties that I normally think of in connection with the category
>> are really product properties.]
>>
>> Ruth
>>
>> Schubi wrote:
>>    
>>> Hi i´m new in the world of OFBiz....
>>>
>>> and i have two questions
>>>
>>> 1. is it possible to sync 2 catalogs and how? i want to have one catalog
>>> wich is visible in the shop and one non visibile catalog. so i could put
>>> all
>>> new products in the non visible catalog and once a day a sync the
>>> database....
>>>
>>> 2. can i inheritance properties from a catagorie in the catalog to a
>>> product?
>>>
>>> thanks for your help
>>>  
>>>      
>>
>>    
>
>  

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Re: OFBiz Catalog & inheritance of products

David E. Jones-2

The easiest way I know of to do this is to use the Catalog Managed  
product search screens. On the search results page near the bottom  
there is a set of forms you can use to do things to do the search  
results, including adding and removing features and categories (which  
should address the things Schubi mentioned).

-David


On Jul 15, 2009, at 10:08 AM, Ruth Hoffman wrote:

> The last time I looked, there was nothing that allowed you to move  
> products from catalog to catalog in bulk. It shouldn't be too  
> difficult to write a service to do that since catalogs & categories  
> exist independently of products (and product features such as  
> product pricing & description.) You could then set the new service  
> up to recur every day, at a time convenient to you.
>
> Or, you could just switch the catalog that is viewable on the  
> website. You will need to do that manually using the Catalog Manager.
>
> Maybe someone else on the list knows a better way.
> Ruth
> Schubi wrote:
>> I will have only one catalog and update the changes only once a  
>> day... so
>> that i can put all new products prices and so on over the day in  
>> the non
>> visible catalog. Is there any function in ofbiz to do this?
>>
>>
>> Ruth Hoffman-2 wrote:
>>
>>> Your motivation for wanting to do this may have some bearing on  
>>> the answer to these questions. For example, do you simply want to  
>>> put all your new products on the website at one time (say 12  
>>> midnight?). Or do you have multiple suppliers/vendors and want  
>>> each to have a separate catalog? At some point, you want to merge  
>>> all the catalogs and all the products?
>>>
>>> What properties would you like to inherit from the category? [Most  
>>> of the properties that I normally think of in connection with the  
>>> category are really product properties.]
>>>
>>> Ruth
>>>
>>> Schubi wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi i´m new in the world of OFBiz....
>>>>
>>>> and i have two questions
>>>>
>>>> 1. is it possible to sync 2 catalogs and how? i want to have one  
>>>> catalog
>>>> wich is visible in the shop and one non visibile catalog. so i  
>>>> could put
>>>> all
>>>> new products in the non visible catalog and once a day a sync the
>>>> database....
>>>>
>>>> 2. can i inheritance properties from a catagorie in the catalog  
>>>> to a
>>>> product?
>>>>
>>>> thanks for your help
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>