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Posted to user@ofbiz.apache.org by Divesh Dutta <di...@hotwaxmedia.com> on 2009/01/06 12:33:47 UTC

Associate product with carrier party Id

Hello all, 
           I want to associate product with specific carrier party Id.Is there any way to do so? My major concern is to identify some products whether they are FEDEX shippable or not?

Thanks in advance
Regards
Divesh Dutta

Re: Associate product with carrier party Id

Posted by Divesh Dutta <di...@hotwaxmedia.com>.

Thanks David.Thing is clear to me,and this solves my issue.

Regards
Divesh Dutta



----- "David E Jones" <da...@hotwaxmedia.com> wrote:

| For modeling concerns the most important question related to this is: 
| 
| what does is mean to be FedEx Shippable? (ie what are the actual rules
|  
| that determine if something is FedEx shippable or not)
| 
| With those rules you can look at the two common options:
| 
| 1. if the data for the factors in the rules is already in the system 
| 
| then you can write code to automatically determine if each product is 
| 
| "FedEx Shippable" or not
| 
| 2. if the data is not available in the system, and/or there are issues
|  
| with maintaining the data reliably, then you can add a flag (indicator
|  
| field on the Product entity) so that someone managing products can  
| manually specify "FedEx Shippable" or not
| 
| Those are the two basic paths: automatic, or manual. To decide which 
| 
| way to go you need to know the rules for determining the outcome. That
|  
| is especially important for a particular end-user because different  
| organizations may have VERY different definitions/rules for something 
| 
| like this.
| 
| -David
| 
| 
| On Jan 6, 2009, at 3:33 AM, Divesh Dutta wrote:
| 
| > Hello all,
| >           I want to associate product with specific carrier party  
| > Id.Is there any way to do so? My major concern is to identify some 
| 
| > products whether they are FEDEX shippable or not?
| >
| > Thanks in advance
| > Regards
| > Divesh Dutta

Re: Associate product with carrier party Id

Posted by David E Jones <da...@hotwaxmedia.com>.

For modeling concerns the most important question related to this is:  
what does is mean to be FedEx Shippable? (ie what are the actual rules  
that determine if something is FedEx shippable or not)

With those rules you can look at the two common options:

1. if the data for the factors in the rules is already in the system  
then you can write code to automatically determine if each product is  
"FedEx Shippable" or not

2. if the data is not available in the system, and/or there are issues  
with maintaining the data reliably, then you can add a flag (indicator  
field on the Product entity) so that someone managing products can  
manually specify "FedEx Shippable" or not

Those are the two basic paths: automatic, or manual. To decide which  
way to go you need to know the rules for determining the outcome. That  
is especially important for a particular end-user because different  
organizations may have VERY different definitions/rules for something  
like this.

-David

On Jan 6, 2009, at 3:33 AM, Divesh Dutta wrote:

> Hello all,
>           I want to associate product with specific carrier party  
> Id.Is there any way to do so? My major concern is to identify some  
> products whether they are FEDEX shippable or not?
>
> Thanks in advance
> Regards
> Divesh Dutta