[ubl-dev] OrderReference does not include enough information

["Michael Strasser" <Michael.Strasser@brisbane.qld.gov.au>]

Stephen

I have been working on my UBL documents and now have a better 
understanding how UBL hangs together. Very clever!

Returning to the document titled Notice of Outstanding Supply, I 
looked at your suggested DespatchRequest schema. Our paper 
document includes for each item:

- order number/line
- part number
- description
- outstanding quantity
- date ordered
- due date

Your suggestion of cac:Item doesn't capture enough information 
so I used cac:DespatchLine instead, ignoring irrelevant 
components like cbc:DeliveredQuantity, cac:Shipment etc. I got 
close but found that cac:OrderReference (via 
cac:OrderLineReference) does not include the order's due date. 
Here is a contrived example snippet:

<cac:DespatchLine>
  <cbc:ID>001</cbc:ID>
  <cbc:OutstandingQuantity>12</cbc:OutstandingQuantity>
  <cac:OrderLineReference>
    <cbc:LineID>003</cbc:LineID>
    <cac:OrderReference>
      <cbc:ID>L12345</cbc:ID>
      <cbc:IssueDate>2008-02-21</cbc:IssueDate>
    </cac:OrderReference>
  </cac:OrderLineReference>
  <cac:Item>
    <cbc:Description>Rubber Ducky, Yellow</cbc:Description>
    <cac:SellersItemIdentification>
      <cbc:ID>RDY-12345</cbc:ID>
    </cac:SellersItemIdentification>
  </cac:Item>
</cac:DespatchLine>

My implementation of UBL-Order-2.0 uses /Order/cac:Delivery/ 
cbc:LatestDeliveryDate to specify due date for the order. Do I 
create a custom aggregate component based on cac:DespatchLine, 
but with cac:Delivery as well as cac:OrderLineReference? 

This doesn't feel right to me because the deficiency is actually 
in the order reference, not in the (non-)despatch line. But the 
alternative looks very messy: create custom DespatchLine, 
OrderLineReference and OrderReference components?

Of course, I could try to convice the business that their 
reminder document doesn't need a due date for the items on the 
list. I don't think they would accept that.

Any advice?

(Remember, these documents are only used internally to generate 
documents for faxing.)


Regards

Michael Strasser
Brisbane, Australia



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