Product Catalog Maintenance Workefforts?

[Scott Gray <le...@gmail.com>]

Hi All,

I'm in the process of setting up about 30 of our products (clothing) in 
ofbiz manually and I'm constantly finding that I have to check back over 
what I've done to make sure I didn't miss anything or just to find out 
where I was up to. 

I asked here a couple of weeks ago about creating a screen to show 
products that aren't members of any categories, but now I'm wondering if 
a better approach might be to create a workeffort when any of the 
essentials are missing from a product?
A couple that come to mind:
No default/list price for a finished good
No selectable features for a virtual
No variants for a virtual
No categories assigned to any product

We could then add a screen to the catalog manager detailing the issues 
with easy links to the product to fix them.  Any thoughts?  My thinking 
is that a product incorrectly setup would cost sales and no one wants 
ofbiz blamed for that :-)

Thanks
Scott
 

Re: Product Catalog Maintenance Workefforts?

[Scott Gray <le...@gmail.com>]

Hi BJ

Thanks for your comments.  I was more wondering though whether anyone 
thinks this would be useful in the project or if not I'll focus more on 
what I need it to do rather than what might be best for the project.  I 
would appreciate any comments so that I can get to work with that in mind.

Thanks
Scott

BJ Freeman wrote:
> yes, you can have services check these things and create workeffort 
> tasks.
> You can make if a timed job that runs every hour or so, if there is a 
> log of imput or add it to the list of tasks that are run at midnight 
> (local time)
>
>
> Scott Gray sent the following on 7/17/2006 12:22 AM:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I'm in the process of setting up about 30 of our products (clothing) 
>> in ofbiz manually and I'm constantly finding that I have to check 
>> back over what I've done to make sure I didn't miss anything or just 
>> to find out where I was up to.
>> I asked here a couple of weeks ago about creating a screen to show 
>> products that aren't members of any categories, but now I'm wondering 
>> if a better approach might be to create a workeffort when any of the 
>> essentials are missing from a product?
>> A couple that come to mind:
>> No default/list price for a finished good
>> No selectable features for a virtual
>> No variants for a virtual
>> No categories assigned to any product
>>
>> We could then add a screen to the catalog manager detailing the 
>> issues with easy links to the product to fix them.  Any thoughts?  My 
>> thinking is that a product incorrectly setup would cost sales and no 
>> one wants ofbiz blamed for that :-)
>>
>> Thanks
>> Scott
>>
>>
>

Re: Product Catalog Maintenance Workefforts?

[BJ Freeman <bj...@free-man.net>]

yes, you can have services check these things and create workeffort tasks.
You can make if a timed job that runs every hour or so, if there is a 
log of imput or add it to the list of tasks that are run at midnight 
(local time)


Scott Gray sent the following on 7/17/2006 12:22 AM:
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm in the process of setting up about 30 of our products (clothing) in 
> ofbiz manually and I'm constantly finding that I have to check back over 
> what I've done to make sure I didn't miss anything or just to find out 
> where I was up to.
> I asked here a couple of weeks ago about creating a screen to show 
> products that aren't members of any categories, but now I'm wondering if 
> a better approach might be to create a workeffort when any of the 
> essentials are missing from a product?
> A couple that come to mind:
> No default/list price for a finished good
> No selectable features for a virtual
> No variants for a virtual
> No categories assigned to any product
> 
> We could then add a screen to the catalog manager detailing the issues 
> with easy links to the product to fix them.  Any thoughts?  My thinking 
> is that a product incorrectly setup would cost sales and no one wants 
> ofbiz blamed for that :-)
> 
> Thanks
> Scott
> 
>