[Solved] Request for product options

[QMcKay]

With disregard for actual Physical Inventory in a Warehouse, the following would work for simple control of Product Sales…

Work Period Started Event containing Action with [?Prompt] …

• (optional) Action Update Program Setting with: [?How Many Soup are Available Today] to put value in {SETTING:Soups Available}
• Action Update Product Tag with: [?How Many Soup are Available Today] to put value in {ITEM TAG:Available}
• Rule for Order Added Event with Action Update Product Tag with: [=TN('{ITEM TAG:Available}')-1] to decrease count and with Constrained Action to Cancel Order when [=TN('{ITEM TAG:Available}')-1] == 0.

That would suffice for those types of products, where the number of bowls of onion soup is changed daily, and you’re not necessarily concerned with tracking Physical Inventory of onions.

In fact, now that I look at it, you wouldn’t even need a Product Tag at all, just a Program Setting alone would work. Although having the ability to update the Product Tag could still be useful… once {SETTING:Soups Available} becomes 0, update the Product Tag {ITEM TAG:Available} to No.

Limiting number of Items Sold

A simple method to limit a Menu Item being sold beyond availability. This does not track actual Physical Inventory, but can be used for many cases such as a daily special for something like Soup. FLOW: In this example, we have defined 2 different soups, each with their own limited Quantity. At start of Work Period we are prompted for Item Count: (we enter 10 and 15) [image] When 10 Onion soup have been ordered, we are prevented from ordering any more: [image] When 15 Tomato soup have…

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For actual Physical Inventory in a Warehouse (like Soda, Beer, Buns, etc), that is a different matter. There are no provisions currently built in to read Inventory counts for use in Rules, are there @emre?

We would need an Action to read the count of Inventory Items, something like Read Inventory Values with a parameter for Inventory Item Name, and have it return the Physical Quantity at the very least, or determine the Consumption on-the fly, which might be expensive.