product attributes and futures

[Robert Gan]

hey guys,

i have a question concerning the use of attributes and futures.

I sell technical products, where I want to show technical specifications in a table view. just like:

resuolution: 1024x768
luminance: 200cd/m2
reaction time: ....
and so on


I think attributes are the better choose for it. But I want to set the attributes for the whole category, that my employees which create the new products, have a template and just need to fill in the data for each categorie. On that way they do not have to check all the time the other products to get the attribute names. I want that each product has all the same attributes in that category and all in the same order.

is that possible? I found attributes for the category, but I think this is wrong for me, cause they are not shown on the product configuration in that category.

Has anyone an idea?

Kindly

Robert

[Heidi Dehaes - Olagos]

Hello Robert,

No idea. That not an added value for you. But i want just to say that i
have the same problem with attributes. You have to copy them each time when
you create a new product.

Regards,
Heidi

2012/5/7 Robert G. <[hidden email]>

> hey guys,
>
> i have a question concerning the use of attributes and futures.
>
> I sell technical products, where I want to show technical specifications in
> a table view. just like:
>
> resuolution: 1024x768
> luminance: 200cd/m2
> reaction time: ....
> and so on
>
>
> I think attributes are the better choose for it. But I want to set the
> attributes for the whole category, that my employees which create the new
> products, have a template and just need to fill in the data for each
> categorie. On that way they do not have to check all the time the other
> products to get the attribute names. I want that each product has all the
> same attributes in that category and all in the same order.
>
> is that possible? I found attributes for the category, but I think this is
> wrong for me, cause they are not shown on the product configuration in that
> category.
>
> Has anyone an idea?
>
> Kindly
>
> Robert
>
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[Arun Kumar Batham]

Hello Robert,

I think you can try entity ProductCategoryAttribute to set the
attributes for the whole category. You can also specify types of
attribute from entity ProductCategoryTypeAttr.

Thank you.


Best Regards
Arun Kumar Batham
Hotwax Media



On Tuesday 08 May 2012 02:45 AM, Robert G. wrote:
> category, that my employees which create the new
> products, have a template and just need to fill in the data for each
> categorie.

[Ankit Jain-2]

Hi Robert,

I think features are the better choose, as you mentioned that the
attributes will be same for all the products of a category then you
can use these technical specifications as ProductFeature and associate
to ProductFeatureCategory and then associate this
ProductFeatureCategory to a ProductCategory through
ProductFeatureCategoryAppl. Please have a look to these entity
relationship.

HTH

Regards,
Ankit Jain



On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 2:45 AM, Robert G. <[hidden email]> wrote:

> hey guys,
>
> i have a question concerning the use of attributes and futures.
>
> I sell technical products, where I want to show technical specifications in
> a table view. just like:
>
> resuolution: 1024x768
> luminance: 200cd/m2
> reaction time: ....
> and so on
>
>
> I think attributes are the better choose for it. But I want to set the
> attributes for the whole category, that my employees which create the new
> products, have a template and just need to fill in the data for each
> categorie. On that way they do not have to check all the time the other
> products to get the attribute names. I want that each product has all the
> same attributes in that category and all in the same order.
>
> is that possible? I found attributes for the category, but I think this is
> wrong for me, cause they are not shown on the product configuration in that
> category.
>
> Has anyone an idea?
>
> Kindly
>
> Robert
>
> --
> View this message in context: http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/product-attributes-and-futures-tp4615815.html
> Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

[Robert Gan]

Thanks for your replies.

@Ankit:
I dont mean that the attribute values are the same for all products within this category, just the attribute-names. As example:

Product 1
Attribute1: luminance
Attribute1-Value: 2000

Attribute2: Contrast
Attribute2-Value: 1000:1

Product 2
Attribute1: luminance
Attribute1-Value: 1500

Attribute2: Contrast
Attribute2-Value: 3000:1


Do you know what I mean? Im looking for a possibility to set the Attribute (or feature, if its better) for the whole category, that i.ex. an employee who add a new product to a category sees on product site which values he has to insert to specify i.ex. the technical data of the product.

So The Attributes / Features are not selectable by the customer - these are fixed product features / attributes.

I know that features are also possible for user selection (variant products..) and attributes are like fixed details of a product.

If this is not possible I think I can do it this way:
orientating on category attributes. When a new category attribute (like "contrast") is added, as service will be called to add this attribute to the products as well. Or when I add a product in a category a service checks the attributes of the category before to be available than.

But I dont wanna do sth which is maybe ootb in ofbiz,  so I need to know the exact differences between features and attributes.

I would appreciate any help.

thank you.

Ankit Jain-2 wrote

Hi Robert,

I think features are the better choose, as you mentioned that the
attributes will be same for all the products of a category then you
can use these technical specifications as ProductFeature and associate
to ProductFeatureCategory and then associate this
ProductFeatureCategory to a ProductCategory through
ProductFeatureCategoryAppl. Please have a look to these entity
relationship.

HTH

Regards,
Ankit Jain



On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 2:45 AM, Robert G. <[hidden email]> wrote:
> hey guys,
>
> i have a question concerning the use of attributes and futures.
>
> I sell technical products, where I want to show technical specifications in
> a table view. just like:
>
> resuolution: 1024x768
> luminance: 200cd/m2
> reaction time: ....
> and so on
>
>
> I think attributes are the better choose for it. But I want to set the
> attributes for the whole category, that my employees which create the new
> products, have a template and just need to fill in the data for each
> categorie. On that way they do not have to check all the time the other
> products to get the attribute names. I want that each product has all the
> same attributes in that category and all in the same order.
>
> is that possible? I found attributes for the category, but I think this is
> wrong for me, cause they are not shown on the product configuration in that
> category.
>
> Has anyone an idea?
>
> Kindly
>
> Robert
>
> --
> View this message in context: http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/product-attributes-and-futures-tp4615815.html
> Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

[Robert Gan]

Hey Arun,

thanks for your advice. For what is the entity ProductCategoryTypeAttr?

I mean I do do not find a form in backend to fill this entity with data. When I want to add a category attribute, there is just a form for name and value, not for the type.


On Tuesday 08 May 2012 02:45 AM, Robert G. wrote:
> category, that my employees which create the new
> products, have a template and just need to fill in the data for each
> categorie.