Re: Subscription entity

Posted by BJ Freeman on Jun 30, 2006; 7:27pm
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Subscription-entity-tp169194p169201.html

is there a jira for this?

Al Byers sent the following on 6/30/2006 11:13 AM:

> Hi Andrew,
>
> I just started working with subscriptions, too. Hopefully, David will
> comment if he is not too busy, but in case he doesn't I will tell you
> what I know. I was thinking like you, only I thought maybe Subscription
> should have a recurrenceInfoId field, as RecurrenceInfo entity already
> exists and is set up  to handle this. The place that there is an
> instance of recurrenceInfoId is in ShoppingList which is what David told
> me could be used to set up recurring Subscriptions.
>
> I have not yet looked around for supporting services and such, but I
> would be interested in collaborating with you and anyone else working in
> this field to get a good solution. I am guessing that there are existing
> services to support ShoppingList use; I will be looking today. The
> ProductSubscriptionResource  entity replaces  ProductContent. It is more
> flexible.
>
> I started this email before David responded. I will send it anyway so
> that you and I and any one else can collaborate, if desired. I am
> wondering if there are some admin screen that need to be done?
>
> -Al
>
> Andrew Sykes wrote:
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> I was thinking that it might be a good idea to add an autoRenew
>> attribute to the Subscription entity so that subscriptions could be
>> identified as being automatically renewable.
>>
>> We could then create a service that queried the Subscriptions daily and
>> if one will expire in the next 24 hours and has autoRenew=Y, we could
>> try to re-bill the user.
>>
>> Also, a service that cancelled the subscription, "cancelSubscription"
>> with a timestamp argument to update the Subscription.thruDate This
>> service would set autoRenew="N" and thruDate="timestamp"
>> if the timestamp is not present thruDate would be unchanged.
>>
>> Any thoughts?
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