BigMachines Technology is something which i knew and have been doing for about 3 years now. It is niche’ and knowledge about it is rarely found on the web. I was part of its product development for quite sometime and i have been architecting its implementation projects recently. The platform implementation architects often face issues with system limitations when they are bound to attend the customer requirements. The platform’s grace is its open ends where user can custom code using Java/JavaScript and SOAP in-turn provisioning the ability to use several hundreds of services including .NET based ones.
During the adventurous exploration of the product’s capabilities i have been trying out different out-of-the-box solutions, which i would be sharing with the world. Comments, updates and thoughts are most welcome!
Hi Srikanth,
I am new to bigmachines and my company is trying to implement big machines quoting system. I am trying to understand the association between parts and attributes.
Please help me understand their association.
Thanks,
Vikris
We should be looking from two different perspectives to understand both.
#1 – Parts have to be understood from the User’s perspective. They are the company’s inventory and can quoted to the customer either by configuration (using configurators) or by pick-and-go (by doing a parts search)
#2 – Attributes have to be understood from an Admin’s perspective. As you know, since BM is a platform and you got to customize all modules of it to make it work for you. In all the modules, you take the help of Attributes (as-in ‘fields’ in a web page) to represent the data. Attributes are needed in all the segments of BMI and Parts is just one of it.
I’ll be glad to help in case you need anything in this area. Please feel free to ask.
I have question, How do I put “select Count(*) from address where addressid = $Variable” in BigMachine bmql? Any insight will me to move on my validations.
thanks in advance.
I don’t think BMQL supports this function. I might be able to help with some alternative if you can share the use case in detail.