EcommerceStandardsDocuments.Library 1.5.0

This release updates the library to version 1.5 of the Ecommerce Standards Documents. This version contains a number of new document and record classes, as well as additional properties for a number of existing records. It also deprecates properties associated with the Download entity, in favour of a more broader Asset entity introduced.

A new record type has been created called ESDRecordAsset to represent any kind of asset. An asset can be a physical or non physical object, that may be created, owned transferred, shared, and ultimately destroyed. An asset could be an automobile, a shareholding, or a house.

Another new record type called ESDRecordAssetComponent can be used to link assets together, where an asset may have many component assets that make up its final composition in a hierachy. For example a building may be an asset, and each floor of the building could be component assets. Then each floor could be broken into room assets. Then each room asset could have individual furniture assets. This kind of hierarchical structure can be used by harnessing the Asset Component class.

For existing records that reference the Download entity, these have been deprecated in favour if using the Asset class, since a download is a digital file type of asset. In a future major library release the Download entity will be completely removed from the library.

The Alternate Code record class now has an additional property called codeType that can define the type of code being stored in the record. The ESDocumentConstants defines the types of values that the codeType can be set as. This includes popular barcode formats, and manufacturer part numbers, and other common code definitions.

Product and Stock quantity record types can now define the last date time that stock has become available, as well as on hold, ordered, reserved, back ordered, or consigned. This can provide additional information on movements of stock.

Trading records now have a new property called deliveryPurchaseOrderCode, that allows the code of a purchase order to be included in delivery information, that is useful in drop shipping and freight processes.