Talking with Bryan about code tweaks and changes for sub inventory. It gets really complicated when trying to dynamically output all values, even with crazy different sub attributes. Eventually, our conversation went into reports, building your own complex data structures, and showing correct results out on ecommerce. One of the things that gets tough is sub attribute names. Bryan has a client that wants all sub attributes with the same names, to be displayed together in the same output column. It just makes is tough to get back to the correct pieces.

For example, say you have 5 different item categories. Each of those is capable of having their own sub attributes (unlimited). But, for display and reporting, you want everything to show the batch number column in the same column, even though some categories have that as text 1, text 3, and text 4 (just for this sample). Technically, it may be named the same (human side), but in the background, the data is stored based off of column 1, 3, and 4. That makes is more complicated. Anyways, we are seeing multiple requests to help standardize things and make it simpler, even though, technically, it is based off of dynamic user-maintained one to many relationships. People want it to look and appear very simple. That makes it harder on our end to make it look and appear simple.

Took a little bit of time and recorded some notes on our sub inventory document.