Re: Dev - [OFBiz] [JIRA] Commented: (OFBIZ-826) Order Unit of Measure

Posted by David E. Jones on Apr 26, 2006; 9:44am
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Re-Dev-OFBiz-JIRA-Commented-OFBIZ-826-Order-Unit-of-Measure-tp167770p167771.html


Jacopo Cappellato wrote:

> Ok, so if the prices will be expressed for the units in the sku uom id
> then everything will be a little easier (no conversion needed when you
> calculate the order item amount); as a consequence, the new field that
> will store the sku uom id could be named Product.internalQtyUomId
> instead of Product.inventoryQtyUomId.
>
> The biggest issue I see is that OrderItem.quantity field should be an
> integer value (even if the db field allows for decimal values, the
> system expects it to contain integer values): so you'll have to manage
> this... I'm not sure about the best approach here; comments from others?

As I've mentioned before in order to push the quantity to a whole number we introduced the amount field which is meant to be a decimal. For many packaged goods no amount is needed as it is always 1.0, but for something like rope or boards that are custom cut or other things like that, the amount would be used along with a UOM to specify exactly what is being ordered.

-David


 
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