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Item Properties and the Finite State Business Rule Engine.

Maxwell edited this page Oct 25, 2013 · 1 revision

Products with options of distinction for sale are a problem to manage and this is undeniable. From a larger perspective, the item is essentially composed of a set of static information - the description - and a subset, not mandatory, containing additional dynamic and relevant - the properties.

A T-shirt (T shirt, tee-shirt, or tee) is a style of shirt. A T-shirt's defining characteristic is the T shape made with the body and sleeves. It is normally associated with short sleeves, a round neck line, and no collar.

A simple example from this perspective is the shirt:

What is a T-shirt? - According to wikipedia

T-shirts are typically made of cotton fibers (sometimes others), knitted together in a jersey stitch that gives a T-shirt its distinctive soft texture. The majority of modern T-shirts have a body that is made from a continuously woven tube, so the torso has no side seams. T-Shirt

In this brief description, we can identify a property specification, the material composition of the shirt - cotton or others - the use of this information under a descriptive aspect, determines that each variation of the property, there is a new product.

What is acceptable when the variations below a number greater than 10, or when no more than 2 properties variants.

Even taking for example the shirt, there are the intrinsic properties and they must both make your registration as exercise some influence on consumer purchase.

Some properties are:

  • Color
  • Size
  • Stamp

As presented at the beginning of this section, properties are:

  • changeable
  • Influence one in its registration of products
  • Influence on the purchase of your customer