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Christian Carlow edited comment on OFBIZ-5393 at 11/12/13 6:01 PM:
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This patch changes the order entry product variant feature selection functionality to support optional and default selection by creating two new ProductFeatureApplTypes: "SELECTABLE_OPTIONAL" and "SELECTABLE_DEFAULT" with the parent type "SELECTABLE_FEATURE"
SELECTABLE_OPTIONAL allows a product variant to be created without the productFeatureId of the ProductFeatureAppl record. Only one of the productFeatureAppl records sharing the same productFeatureId have to be set to SELECTABLE_OPTIONAL for the functionality to apply.
SELECTABLE_DEFAULT sets selected='selected' for the drop down option tags corresponding the the ProductFeatureAppl records.
was (Author: ofbizzer):
This patch changes the order entry product variant feature selection functionality to support optional and default selection by creating two new productVariantApplTypeIds "SELECTABLE_OPTIONAL" and "SELECTABLE_DEFAULT" with the parent type "SELECTABLE_FEATURE"
SELECTABLE_OPTIONAL allows a product variant to be created without the productFeatureId of the ProductFeatureAppl record. Only one of the productFeatureAppl records sharing the same productFeatureId have to be set to SELECTABLE_OPTIONAL for the functionality to apply.
SELECTABLE_DEFAULT sets selected='selected' for the drop down option tags corresponding the the ProductFeatureAppl records.
> Improve product features and feature selection order entry to better handle highly configurable products
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> Key: OFBIZ-5393
> URL:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-5393> Project: OFBiz
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Affects Versions: SVN trunk
> Reporter: Christian Carlow
> Attachments: OFBIZ-5393.patch
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> OFBiz product features and order entry feature selection form should be improved to better handle highly configurable products. By highly configurable I mean that I have 30 feature types or more, some of which should be considered optional and others that have a wide range of possible values.
> I'm dealing with purchase orders of glass materials for which multiple optical properties can be specified as features. The refractive index of the glass is a very specific decimal number that ranges very narrowly for different variations of the same glass but widely for different glass products. Because of this I chose to create a separate productFeatureCategory for every glass product that gets created instead of a more general "Glass Features" productFeatureCategory so that the list of refractive indexes will be limited only to those that apply.
> Currently the order entry feature selection form requires all features to selected before the form can be submitted and the product variant added to the order. I considered just creating an "_NA_" feature option for the optional fields but it could become very cumbersome for the user to have to enter a separate "_NA_" feature option for every individual product created. Also, when dealing with 30 or more potential features, having to select "_NA_" repeatedly for optional features would become fairly inconvenient.
> Having an "OPTIONAL_SELECT_FEATURE" productFeatureApplTypeId could serve to indicate that a feature should be considered optional. This could be used to distinguish between required selections and allow forms to be submitted without an optional being selected.
> Product variants would have to be changed to account for configurations where some feature values are not assign to a value.
> Anyone dealing with configurable products like this?
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