That is the easiest way. Consider this though.
Depending on how important you as a vendor are to the customer and how it is the purchasing agent agregates orders (ie does each branch make their "ABC, Inc order" or do they requisition specefic items and the purchasing agent sorts out the vendor? you may be able to position your company into their administrative process (which makes it harder for them to get rid of you) by having each branch manager place an order against their account and allow for the purchasing agent to approve/edit the order before it becomes their purchase order. If you were able to convince them of this strategy the branches would be able track their orders directly through your site as opposed to hunting down the purchasing agent to get the tracking info from you and then him relay it to the branch or worse having the purchasing agent allow other people to access his login. You would also know order specifics before the purchasing agent has placed the firm order. It also makes it easier to create reports for your customer based on branches or regions using party groups. I've hacked this implementation into my custom ecommerce app if you're interested in an idea on how to implement it. I've been trying to find the time to genericize it into the wholesale app. ----David wrote: This sounds like it is just a need for a user interface customization. Using a drop-down instead of the longer form with radio buttons would be just fine and sounds like it would work well for your situation. That should be a pretty easy template change. -David On Sep 28, 2005, at 5:16 PM, Sam wrote: > They are all different company branches with one central purchasing > agent. Our current ecommerce application displays the shipto's > description in a drop down list. > > You are correct on the B2C part. We have recently added many B2C > functions and we are now trying to get the cosmetic portion > complete. I purchased the documentation but I have not had a chance > to read it all. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > -Sam > > Chris Howe wrote: >> I would imagine this is more of a B2B functionality than an >> Ecommerce B2C situation. This could be handled a number of ways >> based on what these addresses actually are. Are they "Drop Ship" >> locations or are they branches? Is this customer the one who's >> actually placing the order or are there others? ------Sam wrote: >> Does anyone have a tutorial on recordset paging (entity lists? not >> sure of the proper term is) in OfBiz? We have a customer that has >> over 75 ship-to addresses and I'm afraid the ecommerce profile and >> checkout pages will be an annoyance. Thank you in advance, Sam >> _______________________________________________ Users mailing list >> Users at lists.ofbiz.org http://lists.ofbiz.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users at lists.ofbiz.org > http://lists.ofbiz.org/mailman/listinfo/users -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 2363 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.ofbiz.org/pipermail/users/attachments/20050928/035a78ee/smime-0001.bin _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.ofbiz.org/mailman/listinfo/users |
I will attempt to make the template changes for the multiple shipto's.
The approval process is exactly what I'm attempting to do. If you are able to share your changes I would greatly appreciate it. I have a crude version of this already using a link to "changeOrderItemStatus", a custom security group and <#if security.hasEntityPermission("ORDERMGR", "_UPDATE", session)> on the orderhistory page, but I'm not sure if this is secure. Thanks again, -Sam Chris Howe wrote: That is the easiest way. Consider this though. Depending on how important you as a vendor are to the customer and how it is the purchasing agent agregates orders (ie does each branch make their "ABC, Inc order" or do they requisition specefic items and the purchasing agent sorts out the vendor? you may be able to position your company into their administrative process (which makes it harder for them to get rid of you) by having each branch manager place an order against their account and allow for the purchasing agent to approve/edit the order before it becomes their purchase order. If you were able to convince them of this strategy the branches would be able track their orders directly through your site as opposed to hunting down the purchasing agent to get the tracking info from you and then him relay it to the branch or worse having the purchasing agent allow other people to access his login. You would also know order specifics before the purchasing agent has placed the firm order. It also makes it easier to create reports for your customer based on branches or regions using party groups. I've hacked this implementation into my custom ecommerce app if you're interested in an idea on how to implement it. I've been trying to find the time to genericize it into the wholesale app. ----David wrote: This sounds like it is just a need for a user interface customization. Using a drop-down instead of the longer form with radio buttons would be just fine and sounds like it would work well for your situation. That should be a pretty easy template change. -David On Sep 28, 2005, at 5:16 PM, Sam wrote:They are all different company branches with onecentral purchasingagent. Our current ecommerce application displaysthe shipto'sdescription in a drop down list. You are correct on the B2C part. We have recentlyadded many B2Cfunctions and we are now trying to get the cosmeticportioncomplete. I purchased the documentation but I havenot had a chanceto read it all. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, -Sam Chris Howe wrote:I would imagine this is more of a B2B functionalitythan anEcommerce B2C situation. This could be handled anumber of waysbased on what these addresses actually are. Arethey "Drop Ship"locations or are they branches? Is this customerthe one who'sactually placing the order or are there others?------Sam wrote:Does anyone have a tutorial on recordset paging(entity lists? notsure of the proper term is) in OfBiz? We have acustomer that hasover 75 ship-to addresses and I'm afraid theecommerce profile andcheckout pages will be an annoyance. Thank you inadvance, Sam_______________________________________________Users mailing listUsers at lists.ofbiz.orghttp://lists.ofbiz.org/mailman/listinfo/users_______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users at lists.ofbiz.org http://lists.ofbiz.org/mailman/listinfo/users-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 2363 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.ofbiz.org/pipermail/users/attachments/20050928/035a78ee/smime-0001.bin _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.ofbiz.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.ofbiz.org/mailman/listinfo/users |
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