Selecting quote line items from intelligence pane catalog does not trigger on change event on mft_part_num

Hi Francesca Shiekh 

By adding an Item from Product Catalog Dashlet it will create an entire new model and add it into a new row, so no event is triggered, but you can track/listen that by extending the method _onProductCatalogDashletAddItem from modules/Quotes/clients/base/layouts/quote-data-list-groups/quote-data-list-groups.js.

Regards

Actually you may need to extend the method onAddNewItemToGroup from modules/ProductBundles/clients/base/views/quote-data-group-list/quote-data-group-list.js once the previous I mentioned is a private one.

In this case you need to decide whether to invoke the ERP integration from inside this extended method if product_template_id is populated as per variable prepopulateData.

Good luck!

Thank you André Lopes, I am "playing" with it now, I'll let you know how it goes.

André Lopes, I went with your first instinct.

I distinctly recall trying to add my ERP lookup to  

custom/modules/ProductBundles/clients/base/views/quote-data-group-list/quote-data-group-list.js

when Sidecar Quotes were first introduced and after getting nowhere for a long time I gave up and used the on change in custom/modules/Products/clients/base/fields/quote-data-relate/quote-data-relate.js instead.

For the Product Catalog Dashlet I proceeded as follows and this works:

In: 

custom/modules/Quotes/clients/base/layouts/quote-data-list-groups/quote-data-list-groups.js

({
  extendsFrom: 'QuotesQuoteDataListGroupsLayout',
  initialize: function(options){
    this._super('initialize',[options]);
  },
  _onProductCatalogDashletAddItem: function(productData) {
    this.triggerERPLookup(productData);
    //note that we don't call the parent _onProductCatalogDashletAddItem here
    //we need to wait until the API is done fetching Tax and Price
  },
  triggerERPLookup: function(productData){
    //I need users to fill in the Quote completely before adding products
    //we have some params that are set when the quote is saved that are needed for the lookup
    //and I need them to click the save on the Quoted Line Item to trigger some more stuff...
    //not ideal but it's the best I could do
    
    if(this.context.get('layout') == 'create'){
      app.alert.show('message-id', {
        level: 'warning',
        messages: 'Please save quote before adding line items',
        autoClose: false
      });
      return;
    }
    //at this point "this" is the Quote
    //productData is an array with field=>value for each of the fields of the Quoted Line Item we just selected

    //I will be using quote_attr in my parameters passed to the API
    var quote_attr = this.model.attributes;

    //set the quoted line item currency. It is not copying the currency from the quote.
    productData['currency_id']=quote_attr.currency_id; 

    //go get the Price using the quote attributes and the productData
    this.getPrice(quote_attr, productData);
  },
  getPrice:function(quote_attr,productData){
    //I am taking some specific details out so you don't get lost in my particular case
    var self = this;

    //tell the user we are looking up price, this may take a while they need to know something is happening
    app.alert.show('erp_price', {
      level: 'process',
      title: 'Looking up Price in ERP...'
    });

    //set Price from ERP
    var price_url = app.api.buildURL('ERPGetPrice/.<a bunch of parameters>);
    app.api.call('GET', price_url, null, {
      success: function (price){
        //set the productData discount price to the price we found 
        productData['discount_price'] = price;
        //dismiss the alert
        app.alert.dismiss('erp_price');
        //go get the tax
        self.getTax(quote_attr,productData);
      },
      error: function(e){
        app.alert.dismiss('erp_price');
        console.log(e);
        //if there is an error just put the product in, the price and tax will be zero but our sales team knows what to do
        self._super('_onProductCatalogDashletAddItem',[productData]);
      },
    });
  },
  getTax: function(quote_attr, productData){
    // in the US the tax depends on the item, service is different from physical products
    // so we added tax at line item level - it seems very odd that that is not how it is out of the box
    //also see Quotes/record/record.js for changes in tax exemption
    var self = this;
    if(quote_attr.tax_exempt_c == 1){
      //no sense wasting time looking up tax if they are tax exempt. We have a flag for that on the Quote (one of the params that are set when the quote is saved)
      productData['line_tax_percent_c']= 0;
      //call the parent to render the line
      self._super('_onProductCatalogDashletAddItem',[productData])
    }else{
      //warn the user that we're doing something
      app.alert.show('erp_tax', {
        level: 'process',
        title: 'Looking up Tax in ERP...'
      });
      //go look up the tax
      var tax_url = app.api.buildURL('ERPGetTax/'.<a bunch of params here>);
      app.api.call('GET', tax_url, null, {
        success: function (tax){
          //set the productData tax to what we've found
          productData['line_tax_percent_c'] = app.math.round(tax, 3, true);//format to precision matching field def
          //dismiss the alert
          app.alert.dismiss('erp_tax');
          //now we have both Price and Tax we can call the parent to render the data
          self._super('_onProductCatalogDashletAddItem',[productData])
        },
        error: function(e){
          app.alert.dismiss('erp_tax');
          console.log(e);
          //if getting tax errors out just render what we have our sales team knows what to do
          self._super('_onProductCatalogDashletAddItem',[productData])
        },
      });
    }
  },
})