Order Type in Cartridge

Question

Hi,
Can a single cartridge have multiple Order Types, if so what is the catagory to select Order Types?
When creating a cartridge itself there is an entity is getting created automatically with cartridge name in .order format. what is the singnificant of this order type. when i click select in Order Recoginition Rule to select order type it shows this order type only.
I red from the document that Order recognition is the process of determining the type of an incoming order so it can be mapped to an order specification in OSM. Each recognition rule is associated with an order specification. What is order specification here?
Moreover ORR can be mapped with only one order type.
Can anyone pls explain on this...
Thanks in advance
Bharathi
Edited by: Bharathi on Mar 9, 2012 2:58 AM

Answer 1

Hi Bharathi;
When you create a new OSM cartridge in Design Studio a few default entities are created including an Order Type entity. You can have as many Order Type entities as you wish in a single cartridge. When we talk about an Order Specification, we are really talking about a given Order Type within a specific version of a Cartridge. e.g. You may have cartridge Foo, with versions 1, 2 and 3. Cartridge Foo may have several different order types - Bar1, Bar2, Bar3. An Order Specification would be Bar2 in Cartridge Foo version 3.
Hope that helps.
Brian.