AbleCommerce Shopping Cart Software

Is there a reason why child products (those which are part of another product's kit) cannot themselves be a kit? In the admin panel, when I view the child product and click the Kit/Bundle link in the left nav, I don't see the ability to add child products -- even as hidden auto-included products. I only see the list of parent products.

I'm building this for a manufacturer who would really like to nest products, many of which are hidden, so that they can track the inventory stock level of the component parts. Any ideas?

The logical guess it would be because it would be possible to link products recursively and the code would have to have a way to detect that and deal with it, or risk creating indefinite loop.

Perhaps some kind of a KitProductItemLevel property could be used so the parent would always get an item level of X, and children would get x+1, x+2, etc. and the logic could use it to prevent items with lower level being added as a child to the higher level preventing recursion.

This is exactly what we need for our project, by the way, it would have made it a lot easier and make a lot more sense if it was implemented, even if for a fixed number of levels (I'd take even 1 more level, although we would need 2 more to make it fit our model perfectly).

I have not thought about it much, since we do not have the source code, but if I saw it I might get a better idea of how it could be done.

Eh, it should be easy enough for the software to know that there's an ancestor/descendant relationship already and so prohibit a new relationship. I think I'm going to make a request.