Re: Groups

[Chris Travers <..hidden..>]

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 12:13 PM, John Bell <..hidden..> wrote:

>>
> Chris,
>
> I can see the the functionality of groups is not well developed. My
> point is that, logically, a group and an assembly are very similar; they
> are collections of objects. As you have methods to list assemblies, the
> same methods could be used to list groups. "assemblies of type=group".
>
> My perspective is that I would like to be able to group my parts &
> assemblies so that If I'm looking for. say, a bearing, I can look in the
> group "bearings", but this would need to be heirachical, so that I can
> build up a tree of groups to arrive at the part I'm after.

Not quite.

Assemblies are used for light manufacturing and retail bundles.   This
needs further work in 1.4....

Partsgroups are UI devices to help POS systems using touchscreens work
better.  You select the partsgroup, then select the part, then it adds
it to the invoice......

Does this make sense?

Best Wishes,
Chris Travers