Hi Jonathan,
Sorry for replying on the old thread. While i was going through this thread, i find it a little difficult to correlate between your explanation here and TMF620 List Product Specifications API.
Screenshots from the doc regarding this API:
Product Specification with isBundle = true
And it has list of product specifications.
As against my understanding, it (bundling product specification) has product characteristics attached to it. As per what i understand from your previous explanation, bundling product specification is just a virtual entity that groups bundled product specifications and these bundled product specifications are nothing but simple/atomic product specifications which has characteristics attached to it.
My another question is, when to use composite product specification vs product specification relation.
Can you shred some light on these items please ?
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Mahesh Kothamasu
SP Telecommunications Pte Ltd
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Original Message:
Sent: Apr 26, 2020 08:22
From: Jonathan Goldberg
Subject: TMF620 - ProductOffering-BundledProductSpecification
Hi Leena
First, we should be clear that there is no given relationship between the characteristics of the bundling product specification and the contained product specifications. One use case for bundling at specification level is when specifications are complex and could cause confusion if everything was placed in one specification. Another use case could be when you want to re-use a specification, e.g. assuming that there were no commercial considerations voicemail could be re-used (perhaps) in mobile voice, VoIP, or even PSTN.
The product offerings used to sell the bundle spec refer directly only to the bundle spec, say VoIP. But with the ProductSpecificationCharacteristicValueUse in product offering, you can "reach" into the contained simple product spec and restrict the list of valid values differently as needed for each offering that sells VoIP.
Hope it helps
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Jonathan Goldberg
Amdocs Management Limited
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Original Message:
Sent: Apr 24, 2020 13:48
From: Leena Jain
Subject: TMF620 - ProductOffering-BundledProductSpecification
Hi All,
Let say a BundledProductSpecification is created of two SimpleProductSpecifications (prodspec1 & prodspec2). BundledProductSpecification has characteristics (x,y,z) and SimpleProductSpecifications has its own characteristics (a,b,c)
If a productOffering is created with a BundledProductSpecification, the productSpecificationCharacteristics (a,b,c) of SimpleProductSpecifications can be inherited as 'ProductSpecificationCharacteristicValue' and allowed to be modified at product offering level?
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Leena Jain
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