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[jira] [Created] (OFBIZ-13668) Create a beginner's guide to setting up configurable goods on Apache OFBiz using LLMs

Swapnil Shah created OFBIZ-13668:
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             Summary: Create a beginner's guide to setting up configurable goods on Apache OFBiz using LLMs
                 Key: OFBIZ-13668
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-13668
             Project: OFBiz
          Issue Type: Task
          Components: Documentation
            Reporter: Swapnil Shah
            Assignee: Swapnil Shah


Add a tutorial guide under the OFBiz space that walks a first-time user through setting
up a configurable goods business end-to-end, generating the entity XML from a
plain-language description of the business.

It should cover both cases:
* Fixed variants selected from predefined options, such as frame colour and frame width
* Build-your-own configurable products, where the customer selects an option per
  component and the price is assembled from the selected parts.

 The XML file should address all relevant entities such as:

ProdCatalog, ProductCategory,
Product (virtual and variant), ProductFeature and its associations, ProductConfig,
ProductConfigItem, ProductConfigOption, ProductConfigProduct, ProductStore,
Facility, InventoryItem, WorkEffort and WorkEffortAssoc, among others.

_For a newcomer, this is a significant barrier when done manually._ The relationships between virtual products, variants, features and configuration items are not obvious from the
entity definitions alone, and a single incorrect value causes entityImport to roll
back the entire file.

 



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