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[Uma S]

Hi Alan,

Thanks for the clear explanation about business case scenario of n:n
relationship between modules. Will look into this case.

On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Alan Lord (News) <alanslists at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 04/11/14 04:15, Uma S wrote:
>
>> Hi Alan,
>>
>> Could you please explain us, What is the business case scenario of
>> adding same record multiple times?
>>
>
> In this particular scenario, we have built some custom modules for a
> marketing company. They try to get people (normally families) to go on
> short vacations at very cheap or free prices as long as they attend a
> seminar to tell them about timeshare opportunities at the resort where they
> are having their vacation.
>
> Often the customer is given incentives in the form of gift vouchers. These
> vouchers are a very simple object (just have a code number, a short name
> and a value) which has n:n relationships with the Resorts where they may be
> offered (think Disney, a ticket to a show or a dinner in a restaurant) and
> also an n:n relationship with the details of the vacation that has been
> sold.
>
> Often the customer will be given multiples of the same gifts, e.g. They
> might be need to record 4 gift records which are single tickets to the same
> show and then 2 for a meal for example.
>
> I am aware we could probably achieve this using Products and Quotes or
> Sales Orders, but there is no need for that level of financial information
> or recording... And we'd almost certainly have to modify the Quote/Sales
> Order module extensively to support the rest of the business data, and the
> Product module just to satisfy the other requirements and remove unwanted
> functionality.
>
> Hope this makes sense.
>
> Al
>
> PS - I'm sure there could be other use-cases too. It doesn't seem like a
> terribly unusual requirement and without it it will be much harder to get
> effective reporting of Gift take-up etc...
>
>
>
>
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With
Best Regards
Uma.S
Vtiger Team
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