Forum OpenACS Development: Response to ecommerce: reason behind item-quantity-change design

Tom, thanks for showing a more appropriate way to handle split orders. This example serves to remind me of potential serious repercussions of using an inapporpiate data model.

Among other projects, later this fall I want to work on the openacs ecommerce/merchant code for integrating ecommerce merchants with distributor inventory/supply-chain-management systems --perhaps using the xml/soap implementation to handle import/export of data. At this point, for all I know, the concept may be redundant somehow by using the existing content management system. Anyway, I am looking forward to tapping the universal mind of the openacs.org community to prevent making poor programming decisions etc.