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2011/2/15 Guewen Baconnier <guewen.baconnier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> Hello,
>
> I opened the discussion on this type of products to avoid that
> everyone goes in a different way.
> We now have to start the work on that, so with no inputs of the
> magentoerpconnect community we'll start with our last mentioned
> solution.
> We'll create a many2one field from varianted products to container product.
> > My T-Shirt Red L      -> linked on My T-Shirt
> > My T-Shirt Red XL    -> linked on My T-Shirt
> > My T-Shirt Blue L      -> linked on My T-Shirt
> > My T-Shirt Blue XL    -> linked on My T-Shirt
> And each varianted product is an individual product.
> Then we'll fulfill an attribute on the configurable product which
> contains the SKUs of each varianted product.
>
> Indeed the module will be published on extra-addons as soon as possible.
>
> Thanks
> Best Regards
> --
> Guewen Baconnier
>
> Business Developer
> Business Solutions
> Camptocamp SA
> PSE A, CH-1015 Lausanne
>
> http://openerp.camptocamp.com/
>
> Phone: +41 21 619 10 39
> Office: +41 21 619 10 10
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> Email: guewen.baconnier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 09:14, Guewen Baconnier
> <guewen.baconnier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hello magentoerpconnect community,
> >
> > I avail the momentum of reflection on the product's packs launched by
> > Raphaël to launch a discuss about the configurable products.
> >
> > By configurable products (I use the Magento term, do you call it
> > varianted products in OpenERP ?), I mean for example the case of the
> > t-shirt which has 2 colors and 2 sizes with 5 products :
> > My T-Shirt (refers to the variants, I will call this one the
> > "container" product)
> > My T-Shirt Red L
> > My T-Shirt Red XL
> > My T-Shirt Blue L
> > My T-Shirt Blue XL
> > An example on Magento is available here :
> >
> http://demo.magentocommerce.com/zolof-the-rock-and-roll-destroyer-lol-cat-t-shirt-126.html
> > And it's configuration :
> >
> http://demo-admin.magentocommerce.com/index.php/admin/catalog_product/edit/id/126/
> >
> > We searched for something already existing to manage them but did not
> > found anything. Do you confirm ?
> >
> > We thought about several ways to manage them, here is a brief of our
> > considerations.
> >
> > We excluded BoMs because that is not the same concept.
> >
> > We considerate to use the product_variant_multi module. In the idea it
> > seems a good option. But in reality, the gap to integrate it with
> > magentoerpconnect is big :
> >  - Dimension and values corresponds to attributes and options, but the
> > datamodel isn't the same.
> >  - Generate variants based on a product.template but we will miss the
> > product which refers the variants (My T-Shirt).
> >  - The standard fields will be copied from the template on the
> > variants but we'll still need to go configure the magento attributes
> > on variants so it will be perturbing with some fields updated on each
> > variants and some not.
> >  - We are not sure of the bug-proof of the variants, it seems that
> > there were bugs in V5 with stock levels, but maybe it is fixed in V6.
> > Is anyone using this module and having problems ?
> >  - And it seems to me that there were some other reasons
> > I checked
> https://lists.launchpad.net/magentoerpconnect-community/msg00027.html
> > and contacted this guy but had no success, we doesn't consider his
> > solution.
> >
> > And finally we proposed to manage them simply with a product.template
> > per variant as any normal product, but with a many2one link to the
> > "container" product.
> > The main disadvantage of this solution is that the user will have to
> > do updates on each product variant and create each of them manually.
> > But we can envisage a wizard to generate/update? them.
> > The main advantages is that it is far simple to integrate with
> > Magentoerpconnect and the products representation will be the same as
> > magento (5 products for 4 variants).
> > Indeed we can create views to display the "container products" or the
> > variants of the products.
> >
> > We have a preference for the last solution, it is not perfect but simple.
> >
> > Remains the problem of the creation of the configurable products on
> > Magento, because that's not possible in the API. We thougth that we
> > juste create an attribute on Magento like "configurable_variants"
> > which contains (on the "container" product) an array of SKU. Thereby a
> > module on magento have to interpret this attribute and link them on
> > the frontend.
> >
> > What are your thoughts on that ?
> > Do you have any idea / hints on the way to go ?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > --
> > Guewen Baconnier
> >
> > Business Developer
> > Business Solutions
> > Camptocamp SA
> > PSE A, CH-1015 Lausanne
> >
> > http://openerp.camptocamp.com/
> >
> > Phone: +41 21 619 10 39
> > Office: +41 21 619 10 10
> > Fax: +41 21 619 10 00
> > Email: guewen.baconnier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
>
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