<div dir="ltr">Hi Alan,<div><br></div><div>Thanks for the clear explanation about business case scenario of n:n relationship between modules. Will look into this case.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Alan Lord (News) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alanslists@gmail.com" target="_blank">alanslists@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 04/11/14 04:15, Uma S wrote:<br>
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Hi Alan,<br>
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Could you please explain us, What is the business case scenario of<br>
adding same record multiple times?<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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Hope this makes sense.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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Al<br>
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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...<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">With<br>Best Regards<br>Uma.S<br><div>Vtiger Team</div></div></div>
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