Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-ofbiz-user-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 88913 invoked from network); 5 Jul 2010 23:42:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.3) by 140.211.11.9 with SMTP; 5 Jul 2010 23:42:05 -0000 Received: (qmail 92827 invoked by uid 500); 5 Jul 2010 23:42:04 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-ofbiz-user-archive@ofbiz.apache.org Received: (qmail 92793 invoked by uid 500); 5 Jul 2010 23:42:04 -0000 Mailing-List: contact user-help@ofbiz.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: user@ofbiz.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list user@ofbiz.apache.org Received: (qmail 92785 invoked by uid 99); 5 Jul 2010 23:42:04 -0000 Received: from nike.apache.org (HELO nike.apache.org) (192.87.106.230) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Mon, 05 Jul 2010 23:42:04 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.0 required=10.0 tests=SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (nike.apache.org: domain of bjfree@free-man.net designates 69.94.133.32 as permitted sender) Received: from [69.94.133.32] (HELO main.free-man.net) (69.94.133.32) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Mon, 05 Jul 2010 23:41:57 +0000 Received: from 95.sub-72-102-218.myvzw.com ([72.102.218.95]) by main.free-man.net (JAMES SMTP Server 2.3.2) with SMTP ID 477 for ; Mon, 5 Jul 2010 16:36:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C326D72.7060400@free-man.net> Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2010 16:40:34 -0700 From: BJ Freeman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: user@ofbiz.apache.org Subject: Re: Attaching files to a product References: <10B765F7-BE59-44B5-B07D-2DB079250858@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org how does product content relate to a part that makes up a product? ========================= BJ Freeman Strategic Power Office with Supplier Automation Specialtymarket.com Systems Integrator-- Glad to Assist Chat Y! messenger: bjfr33man Scott Gray sent the following on 7/5/2010 2:48 PM: > You can use Product Content (it's a tab when viewing a product in catalog), but you'll likely need to add custom ProductContentTypes to reflect the types of documents you want to attach. > > Regards > Scott > > HotWax Media > http://www.hotwaxmedia.com > > On 6/07/2010, at 7:43 AM, Olivier Tremblay wrote: > >> Hi again! >> >> I'm looking for a way to attach pdf files (or any type of files) to a product. >> >> I wish to be able to have our engineers link plans to parts, in such a way that it would be very simple, viewing any product, to generate a list of all the parts required to build it, and have access to all the plans for our guys at manufacturing. It would eventually be useful for a client wanting to change a piece, I think. >> >> Up to now, I have dabbled in the "Content" application, but I don't think I have done it right. I wanted to create a new content type, called "plans" or something, and be able to upload that extra piece of information for each product based on the new content type I created... >> >> The idea is that the engineers could just attach the files themselves with no intervention on my part whatsoever. Am I on the right track? My googling around and searching on the mailing list didn't seem to point directly to that, and/or suggested that I couldn't just configure it on OFBiz out of the box without messing around with the code a little bit. >> >> Thanks again, >> >> Olivier >