[Erp5-dev] Variation categories on resources

[bartek]

Łukasz Nowak wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Some time ago I chosen (wrongly) "industrial_phase" category for Product
> and Component portal type as category for generic categorisation of
> resources. Right now I have to choose another category, and I know I
> shall not create new category

Why not? I see nothing wrong in creating new base categories for 
classifying objects. Products, people, organisation can be classified in 
a zillion of ways, it is part of configuration.

But, if you start creating base categories to set relations between 
objects, this would be a bad sign - it would suggest that you do not 
apply the "5 concepts" paradigm properly.

Bartek

> - but I'd like to avoid any future
> implications of such choose (as it happened with industrial_phase).
> 
> Is there any list of "safe" categories - like "size", "colour" - those
> are in http://www.erp5.org/HowToUseVariations ?
> 
> "variante" and "variation" sound good for me - but "industrial_phase"
> was also good.
> 
> If there is no such list shall I do some grepping on code with crazy
> regular expressions to check if category is "safe"? But I won't be able
> to check for future changes that way...
> 
> Regards,
> Luke
> 


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