Orocommerce internal order processing: May I add additional statuses to order?

Hi there,

I would like – in the first step, without setting up a new workflow – to extend the order processing by some further steps.
Specifically, I would like to insert various additional statuses between the internal statuses OPEN and SHIPPED:
– Open
– Draft Processed
– Draft Approved (internal by Supervisior)
– Draft Submitted (to customerUser)
– ReadyToProduce Approved (by customerUser)
– ProductionStep1
– ProductionStep2
– ProductionStepN
– ReadyToDeliver Approved (internal by Supervisor)
– Shipped

The additional statuses are to be stored as internal_status_id values in the oro_order table.

Two questions that would help me a lot for the rough orientation:

1)
Can I do that? Or am I not allowed to add any more statuses by using the statuses stored in the oro-core system?
From my point of view, there is nothing wrong with that, except if the internal_status_ids are fixed.

2)
Should I build a workflow with the above steps (and corresponding transitions), can I use entity ‘order’, or would I have to define a new entity in parallel?

Thank you
Frank

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[MichaelKeymaster]

1) Surely you can add as many new statuses as necessary in Entity Management (see the attached screenshot).

2) You can build a workflow for order entity, or implement “operations” similar to “Mark as Shipped” and “Close”.

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[FrankParticipant]

Hi Michael,

thanks a lot. Very helpful. Sorry, that I did not found the Entity-managment-solution you suggested by myself.
:-)

Kind regards
Frank

[FrankParticipant]

Sorry, how to enable ?

Order > Entity Management > Options

THanks a lot.
Frank

[FrankParticipant]

Embarrassing.
Of course you can find the options in the internal_status field and not on the Entity edit level.

Everything is good!
Frank.

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