Quote Item Logic

Quote Item logic is used when you need to:

Create input fields for a quote line item.
Calculate some results (e.g. prices) for a quote line item.
Warn the user when some lines cannot be calculated.
Alert the user that there are some business problems with the inputs or results.

Logic API

Logic Nature: default
- Logic Type: Calculation/Pricing
Execution Types:
- Input Generation – Defines the input fields.
- Standard – Calculates the results (e.g. prices) and provide warnings and alerts.
Information provided to the logic
- Context:
  - sku - for which SKU it is executed. See api.product("sku") for usage.
  - commandName - info about which operation caused the execution of this logic, e.g. if it was Recalculate, Submit, etc. See api.currentContext() for details.
- Input parameters:
  - Customer – ID of the customer. It can be either from the header or from the item (if it is specified there).
  - Names and values of the item’s inputs.
  - Names and values of the parent folders and header (i.e. values of inherited input fields).
- Current item – QuoteLineItem as Map
- api.global contains:
  - Data stored in api.global in the Quote Header logic pre-phase.
  - Data stored in api.global by execution of the previous quote line (within one recalculation process).
Expected logic execution outcome:
- From Input Generation mode
  - input field definitions (stored in the logic context)
- From Standard mode execution:
  - Results of elements with Display Mode Everywhere (or Quote) – Stored on the quote line item in the field outputs
  - Warnings – Stored together with the element’s result in which it was raised.
  - Alerts – Stored together with the element’s result in which it was raised.
  - api.global – Data stored here will persist until the next execution of this logic for another quote line item (within one recalculation process).

Mapping of results to the QLI

During the process of Quote recalculation (or also Quote Item Addition) the system executes the logic and once it finishes it will:

takes all result values (including formatting, warnings and alerts) of visible elements, and stores them to the outputs field of the QLI object.
does some default mappings, e.g. stores to the QLI information about SKU, product label, input field values.

Common Logic Structure

Elements with functions which are used across all logics.
Elements with definitions of input fields.
Element AbortOnInputGeneration which aborts calculation of the next elements when the logic is executed in the Input Generation mode.
Elements with:
- Calculations, reading of data from tables
- Exposing result values, warnings and alerts

Code Sample

See Quote_Item_Simple.