Re: Virtuals & variants

Posted by Andrew Sykes on Jun 27, 2006; 11:54am
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Virtuals-variants-tp168795p168798.html

Jacopo,

I think the answer to both of these should be yes.

Imagine you had a VERY complex set of variants for a specific trade, you
may want to create a simplified version of your site for the public.

So you may want to make assumptions about some of the selections that
the public make, but not about what the tradesman wants.

It may be there's a better way to handle this than unconstrained
virtual/variant relationships, but I guess that would have to be
clarified before the constraints were made.

- Andrew

On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 12:48 +0200, Jacopo Cappellato wrote:

> or...
>
> can a product be a variant product of more than one virtual products?
>
> Jacopo
>
> Jacopo Cappellato wrote:
> > I agree that the virtual/variant associations can be improved and
> > cleaned-up.
> > However, I think that before we can think of adding constraints to the
> > number of allowed variants, we should cope with the following other
> > issues as well, for example:
> >
> > how should we treat a variant product that has more standard features
> > (types) than the selectable features of its virtual?
> >
> > Jacopo
> >
> >
> > Scott Gray wrote:
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >> I'm just a bit curious about why we allow more than one variant
> >> product to be attached to the same set of feature combinations of a
> >> virtual.  If all variants are exactly the same but only differentiated
> >> by the selectable features of the virtual then how can two variants
> >> with the same features not be the same product?
> >>
> >> Any thoughts or possible use cases would be appreciated.
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >> Scott
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >

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