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Hello,

Please can I have a view if TMF 622 provides any attribute for identification of the order type and further if so, does it cover type as well as sub-type? E.G. a Modify Order can have a sub type like Renumber, Add new service, etc.

Kindly let me know.

Regards,

Amit M Joshi

Hi Amit

An Order is a container of Order Items. So the Order itself doesn't have a type, since (at least in principle) the contained order items will be doing different things. The same order might have an item for disconnecting a line and another item for modifying a line.

At Order Item level there is a nominal type explaining what the action is on the product/service/resource, these types currently tend to be technical (add/change/delete) rather than business (renumber, etc.).

Hope it helps

Hello,

Please can I have a view if TMF 622 provides any attribute for identification of the order type and further if so, does it cover type as well as sub-type? E.G. a Modify Order can have a sub type like Renumber, Add new service, etc.

Kindly let me know.

Regards,

Amit M Joshi

Hi @Amit Joshi

when I look at SID I can't find any type defined. The Product Order holds an action on a Product (that is an implementation of a ProductOffering or a ProductSpecification). Usually the actions are add (to create the product -> Customer owns the Product), modify (to modify the Product), delete (for asking Customer doesn't own Product). On add and modify actions there can be Product characteristics valued, that permits to know what has to be done. So for me Renumber could be a modify with new characteristic value, and add new service a modify main offer + add bundled offer inside.

Also @Jonathan Goldberg I don't think there should be any action on service or resource on a ProductOrder. We have Service Order and Resource Order for this. What do you think about this ?

Hi Amit

An Order is a container of Order Items. So the Order itself doesn't have a type, since (at least in principle) the contained order items will be doing different things. The same order might have an item for disconnecting a line and another item for modifying a line.

At Order Item level there is a nominal type explaining what the action is on the product/service/resource, these types currently tend to be technical (add/change/delete) rather than business (renumber, etc.).

Hope it helps

Hello,

Please can I have a view if TMF 622 provides any attribute for identification of the order type and further if so, does it cover type as well as sub-type? E.G. a Modify Order can have a sub type like Renumber, Add new service, etc.

Kindly let me know.

Regards,

Amit M Joshi

Thanks Oliver, so does this mean - we will have a LoV of possible order actions for a given product as PS Characteristic (for now, lets call it 'Product Sub-action') and the same can be dependent on order action value - so if action = modify, then values for sub-action can be say modify, delete, etc but not 'new provide'.

Out of curiosity - can we not add an additional attribute at OrderItem level to hold this information? I understand this may involve a change to SID model.

@Jonathan - In many business implementations, we have seen that there is an order type - like provide, modify, cease, etc as the order container is generally specific to the business scenario and not open or generic use. How would we support such scenarios? Can we add type at ProductOrder level as extension to the SID model?

Kindly let me know your views.

Regards,

Amit M Joshi

Hi @Amit Joshi

when I look at SID I can't find any type defined. The Product Order holds an action on a Product (that is an implementation of a ProductOffering or a ProductSpecification). Usually the actions are add (to create the product -> Customer owns the Product), modify (to modify the Product), delete (for asking Customer doesn't own Product). On add and modify actions there can be Product characteristics valued, that permits to know what has to be done. So for me Renumber could be a modify with new characteristic value, and add new service a modify main offer + add bundled offer inside.

Also @Jonathan Goldberg I don't think there should be any action on service or resource on a ProductOrder. We have Service Order and Resource Order for this. What do you think about this ?

Hi Amit

An Order is a container of Order Items. So the Order itself doesn't have a type, since (at least in principle) the contained order items will be doing different things. The same order might have an item for disconnecting a line and another item for modifying a line.

At Order Item level there is a nominal type explaining what the action is on the product/service/resource, these types currently tend to be technical (add/change/delete) rather than business (renumber, etc.).

Hope it helps

Hello,

Please can I have a view if TMF 622 provides any attribute for identification of the order type and further if so, does it cover type as well as sub-type? E.G. a Modify Order can have a sub type like Renumber, Add new service, etc.

Kindly let me know.

Regards,

Amit M Joshi