QOT for virtual products

[madppiper-2]

Heya,

I noticed that I am receiving a "not available" message on the ecommerce platform for a virtual product if it doesn't have a sufficient QOT. However, any ProductAssoc associated with this product has a QOT > 0, so there really shouldn't be a problem as the user buys one of the assocs not the virtual product itself (just as with the Giant Widget - the user should be able to purchase the giant-widget-b3 variant even if the giant-widget has nothing on stock).

Is this a common problem or is there an easy fix to this?

Cheers,
Paul

[madppiper-2]

Digging deeper into the logic, i got the following setup that perhaps helps to demonstrate the problem i got:

I created a virtual product with
       
salesDiscWhenNotAvail ="Y"
requireInventory="N"
taxable="Y"
chargeShipping="N"
autoCreateKeywords="Y"
isVirtual="Y"
isVariant="N"
productTypeId="FINISHED_GOOD"
       
and added a set of variant products to it, each differing in size and color.

I now got a parent product (complete with productId) and differing physical products that are pointing towards this parent. Our warehouse reports to us the QOT of all the physical items, that way we have all of the physical items with an inventory > 0 and the virtual product (or parent item) with an inventory = 0. I am now trying to display only the virtual products to a customer where the inventory of their physical items in total is > 0. In addition, I want to allow the user to shop this very item, as long as there are variants available. However, on my ecommerce application I am receiving an error for such items, as long as I don't set "requireInventory" to "N" (which doesn't really make sense to me, as a virtual product should, by definition, never even have an inventory - at least thats how i understand the product page in the docs).

How can I solve this issue without a draining performance loss? (I know that I could use the getProductInventoryAvailableFromAssocProducts service, but that requires another delegator call previous to the service itself and seems rather slow at the whole)
                               

madppiper wrote

Heya,

I noticed that I am receiving a "not available" message on the ecommerce platform for a virtual product if it doesn't have a sufficient QOT. However, any ProductAssoc associated with this product has a QOT > 0, so there really shouldn't be a problem as the user buys one of the assocs not the virtual product itself (just as with the Giant Widget - the user should be able to purchase the giant-widget-b3 variant even if the giant-widget has nothing on stock).

Is this a common problem or is there an easy fix to this?

Cheers,
Paul

[BJ Freeman]

may not help but I remember something last year about setting the
inventory to Y and N making a difference.
about the time the drop shipper code was put in.
don't have time to go dig it out


madppiper sent the following on 6/9/2009 12:07 AM:

> Digging deeper into the logic, i got the following setup that perhaps helps
> to demonstrate the problem i got:
>
> I created a virtual product with
>
> salesDiscWhenNotAvail ="Y"
> requireInventory="N"
> taxable="Y"
> chargeShipping="N"
> autoCreateKeywords="Y"
> isVirtual="Y"
> isVariant="N"
> productTypeId="FINISHED_GOOD"
>
> and added a set of variant products to it, each differing in size and color.
>
> I now got a parent product (complete with productId) and differing physical
> products that are pointing towards this parent. Our warehouse reports to us
> the QOT of all the physical items, that way we have all of the physical
> items with an inventory > 0 and the virtual product (or parent item) with an
> inventory = 0. I am now trying to display only the virtual products to a
> customer where the inventory of their physical items in total is > 0. In
> addition, I want to allow the user to shop this very item, as long as there
> are variants available. However, on my ecommerce application I am receiving
> an error for such items, as long as I don't set "requireInventory" to "N"
> (which doesn't really make sense to me, as a virtual product should, by
> definition, never even have an inventory - at least thats how i understand
> the product page in the docs).
>
> How can I solve this issue without a draining performance loss? (I know that
> I could use the getProductInventoryAvailableFromAssocProducts service, but
> that requires another delegator call previous to the service itself and
> seems rather slow at the whole)
>
>
>
> madppiper wrote:
>> Heya,
>>
>> I noticed that I am receiving a "not available" message on the ecommerce
>> platform for a virtual product if it doesn't have a sufficient QOT.
>> However, any ProductAssoc associated with this product has a QOT > 0, so
>> there really shouldn't be a problem as the user buys one of the assocs not
>> the virtual product itself (just as with the Giant Widget - the user
>> should be able to purchase the giant-widget-b3 variant even if the
>> giant-widget has nothing on stock).
>>
>> Is this a common problem or is there an easy fix to this?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Paul
>>
>

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[madppiper-2]

Ah and thanks for the reply,

sounds like this could help me:


https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-1887

BJ Freeman wrote

may not help but I remember something last year about setting the
inventory to Y and N making a difference.
about the time the drop shipper code was put in.
don't have time to go dig it out


madppiper sent the following on 6/9/2009 12:07 AM:
> Digging deeper into the logic, i got the following setup that perhaps helps
> to demonstrate the problem i got:
>
> I created a virtual product with
>
> salesDiscWhenNotAvail ="Y"
> requireInventory="N"
> taxable="Y"
> chargeShipping="N"
> autoCreateKeywords="Y"
> isVirtual="Y"
> isVariant="N"
> productTypeId="FINISHED_GOOD"
>
> and added a set of variant products to it, each differing in size and color.
>
> I now got a parent product (complete with productId) and differing physical
> products that are pointing towards this parent. Our warehouse reports to us
> the QOT of all the physical items, that way we have all of the physical
> items with an inventory > 0 and the virtual product (or parent item) with an
> inventory = 0. I am now trying to display only the virtual products to a
> customer where the inventory of their physical items in total is > 0. In
> addition, I want to allow the user to shop this very item, as long as there
> are variants available. However, on my ecommerce application I am receiving
> an error for such items, as long as I don't set "requireInventory" to "N"
> (which doesn't really make sense to me, as a virtual product should, by
> definition, never even have an inventory - at least thats how i understand
> the product page in the docs).
>
> How can I solve this issue without a draining performance loss? (I know that
> I could use the getProductInventoryAvailableFromAssocProducts service, but
> that requires another delegator call previous to the service itself and
> seems rather slow at the whole)
>
>
>
> madppiper wrote:
>> Heya,
>>
>> I noticed that I am receiving a "not available" message on the ecommerce
>> platform for a virtual product if it doesn't have a sufficient QOT.
>> However, any ProductAssoc associated with this product has a QOT > 0, so
>> there really shouldn't be a problem as the user buys one of the assocs not
>> the virtual product itself (just as with the Giant Widget - the user
>> should be able to purchase the giant-widget-b3 variant even if the
>> giant-widget has nothing on stock).
>>
>> Is this a common problem or is there an easy fix to this?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Paul
>>
>

--
BJ Freeman
http://www.businessesnetwork.com/automation
http://bjfreeman.elance.com
http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=1237480&locale=en_US&trk=tab_pro
Systems Integrator.