Special items
Temporary container components are “special items”. They behave differently on document layouts to other opportunity items.
When allocating a temporary container to an opportunity, Current adds container components that aren't already on the opportunity to a special “Spares & Containers” group. It adds the container to this group, too.
We don't print this group on customer-facing document layouts by default.
Items that make up this “Spares & Containers” group are known as ‘special items’ internally. If you like, you may access special items on opportunity document layouts.
To print special items on our standard quotation or rental agreement documents, it should be as simple as swapping order.items for order.items_including_special_items and changing your logic to include special items. You may use booleans to determine whether an opportunity item is a special group, item, or accessory.
Serialized component information is also available in the stock level object, useful for creating documents against the product module.
Naming conventions
Before the launch of temporary containers, we used the term ‘serialized components’ to refer to components inside of a serialized container. Temporary containers may include bulk and non-stock, so we changed the terminology in the web interface to ‘container components’ for clarity.
For compatibility, our Liquid objects still use the term ‘serialized components’ to refer to components inside of a serialized container. Keep in mind that container components themselves might not be serialized.
Opportunity objects
The items, products, and rentals objects do not return any special items.
special_items
special_itemsReturns opportunity item objects for special items on an opportunity.
items_including_special_items
items_including_special_itemsReturns opportunity item objects for all opportunity items, including special items.
Opportunity item objects
is_special?
is_special?Returns true if the opportunity item is a special item; false otherwise.
is_special_group?
is_special_group?Returns true if an opportunity item is a special group; false otherwise.
This will usually be called “Spares & Containers”, but the special group name can be changed on an opportunity.
is_special_principal?
is_special_principal?Returns true if an opportunity item is special and has accessory items nested underneath it; false otherwise.
is_special_accessory?
is_special_accessory?Returns true if an opportunity item is special and an accessory; false otherwise.
Opportunity item asset
is_permanent_serialised_container?
is_permanent_serialised_container?Returns true if an opportunity item asset is a permanent serialized container; false otherwise.
is_temporary_serialised_container?
is_temporary_serialised_container?Returns true if an opportunity item asset is a temporary serialized container; false otherwise.
is_permanent_serialised_component?
is_permanent_serialised_component?Returns true if an opportunity item asset is a permanent container container; false otherwise.
is_temporary_serialised_component?
is_temporary_serialised_component?Returns true if an opportunity item asset is a temporary container container; false otherwise.
Stock level
We added new stock level objects when we launched temporary containers. They're used in the ‘Container Contents’ document layout that's available to print from product, stock level, and serialized container screens.
container_components_and_descendants
container_components_and_descendantsReturns stock level objects for container components of this serialized container.
Input
Output
serialised_components_and_descendants
serialised_components_and_descendantsReturns stock level objects for container components of this serialized container. This is the same as above and is included to maintain consistency in naming conventions.
is_permanent_serialised_container?
is_permanent_serialised_container?Returns true if a stock level is a permanent serialized container; false otherwise.
is_temporary_serialised_container?
is_temporary_serialised_container?Returns true if a stock level is a temporary serialized container; false otherwise.
container_weight
container_weightReturns the weight of a serialized container, including all component stock levels.
Use the company object weight unit to print the weight unit for your system.
depth_padding
depth_paddingReturns the depth padding for a container component stock level. Generally used to apply an inline style to a table cell in HTML so that items appear nested.
Increments in multiples of 16.
serialised_component_quantity
serialised_component_quantityReturns the quantity against the container component record if this stock level has been created for the container contents.
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