Calendars and Fixed Asset Usage

[Vince Clark <vc...@globalera.com>]

I am exploring the functionality that associates fixed assets with
rental products. It appears as though an order entered for a rental
product allows reservations (techDataCalendarExcDay) to be updated. This
would cause a subsequent order for the same product with the same date
range to update the records.

Theoretically this is OK, because the calendar simply indicates whether
or not the asset is available. Although I noticed that if the second
order was for fewer days, the additional days were deleted for the
previous order. This means the calendar now showed dates as available,
even though an order had been placed for those dates.

So maybe the Calendar isn't my problem, but the fact that the order
process allowed it to be "double booked."

Is there a way OOTB to lock a date range on an asset once an order is
placed? Or would this be a customization to order entry to check
availability before allowing an order to be placed? I would also like
the ability to delete the records from the asset calendar if the
reservation (order) were canceled.

Scenario (short version):
Set up all the necessary entities, including fixed asset, product, price.
Set product type to fixed asset usage.
Linked product to fixed asset.
Added product to a category in a catalog visible via ecommerce.

So far so good. I can make a reservation thru the web store. However, if
I place another order for the product and specify the same date range
the order will complete.
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Re: Calendars and Fixed Asset Usage

[Hans Bakker <ma...@antwebsystems.com>]

Hi Vince,

the best way is to open a jira issue for the project ofbiz for this (register 
first) at https://issues.apache.org/jira/ . When we have the opportunity we 
can fix it later....and then we do not forget this problem, 
thanks for reporting.

regards,
Hans

On Monday 09 July 2007 06:37, Vince Clark wrote:
> I am exploring the functionality that associates fixed assets with
> rental products. It appears as though an order entered for a rental
> product allows reservations (techDataCalendarExcDay) to be updated. This
> would cause a subsequent order for the same product with the same date
> range to update the records.
>
> Theoretically this is OK, because the calendar simply indicates whether
> or not the asset is available. Although I noticed that if the second
> order was for fewer days, the additional days were deleted for the
> previous order. This means the calendar now showed dates as available,
> even though an order had been placed for those dates.
>
> So maybe the Calendar isn't my problem, but the fact that the order
> process allowed it to be "double booked."
>
> Is there a way OOTB to lock a date range on an asset once an order is
> placed? Or would this be a customization to order entry to check
> availability before allowing an order to be placed? I would also like
> the ability to delete the records from the asset calendar if the
> reservation (order) were canceled.
>
> Scenario (short version):
> Set up all the necessary entities, including fixed asset, product, price.
> Set product type to fixed asset usage.
> Linked product to fixed asset.
> Added product to a category in a catalog visible via ecommerce.
>
> So far so good. I can make a reservation thru the web store. However, if
> I place another order for the product and specify the same date range
> the order will complete.
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