part / assembly + pricing

[J. R. <ho...@ea...>]

a few quick questions:

1) is there a way to auto-update all assemblies when their component parts change price? i.e., we make 'partA' and set it's price to $50, use that in 'assemblyA'. when 'partA' jumps in price to, say, $150, is it possible to automatically adjust the price of the assembly, rather than doing it manually? (if it's possible to do this as a script/cronjob/whatever, that's fine -- just need a way to do it that doesn't require the user to manually update 1000 assemblies.)

2) quantity on hand seems broken, or i'm not understanding something.

example: i create three parts, and stock them with a vendor invoice. i create an assembly using those parts, and stock, say, 50 of them. the quantity on hand of the parts changes as expected. create a new customer, create a sales order for 50 of the assembly.

now, it's my understanding that when i create an invoice for that order and post it to the system, the quantity on hand should change, yes? (invoice equating to 'this order needs to be shipped and the customer will pay us in 'x' days?)

i would guess that as soon as i post the invoice, the quantity on hand for the assembly should drop to 0. from the tests i've done, it doesn't. i've tried leaving the original sales order intact, or deleting it when prompted. nothing seems to make the quantity change at all.

when i delete the posted invoice, however, i end up with 100 of the that assembly in inventory, opposed to the 50 i started with.

huh?

(this is using the most current version btw, 1.8.2)

thanks in advance -
justin
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