Inventory Problem
Hi
Our database has some products with variants and others without. The Catalog Manager UI has a method of entering inventory information for those products that have variants via the Variant Inventory tab. However, there is no way of entering the inventory information for those products without variants. Under some product catalogs the inventory tab is displayed for the product, however in our catalog it isn't being displayed.
My question is, how do I populate the database with inventory information for those products that do not have variants? Is there a database script I can run, or am I supposed to use the catalog web service to populate this information?
By the way I'm not using the SP1 release.
Regards
Paul
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PaulTew] at [2008-1-7]
Have you associated your catalog with an inventory catalog? Neither the Variant Inventory Properties nor the Inventory Properties tabs will appear unless the catalog is associated with an inventory catalog.
To check, click "Inventory Catalogs" in the views section on the left side of the marketing manager. Right click an inventory catalog, choose "Edit Catalog Properties". Then choose the "Product Catalogs" tab, and you should be able to add your catalog as long as it isn't already added to another inventory catalog.
If the Product is based on a ProductFamily definition (i.e. a definition that contains variant properties) then you cannot create inventory for such products. These products are eseentially product families with no variants. Such product Families are not sellable entities in a Commerce Site and hence do not have inventory associated with them.
In order to associate inventory with a product, it should be based on a Product definition (i.e. a definition that contains only nornal properties).
Hope this helps.
Thanks
Sudha
