| Project: | Ubercart Contributions |
| Component: | Code |
| Category: | task |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | active |
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SKU (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock-keeping_unit) and product model are two completely separate things. basically SKU is an internal number or code assigned by warehouse or retailer to a product; on the other hand product model is a number or code assigned by the manufacturer to the product.
SKU is a unique code within the warehouse/retailer but product model can easily have duplicates as it's unique within manufacturer. e.g. Samsung can choose T30023 as product model for a notebook and HP can choose the same code for a cartridge.
combining them into one field is as wrong as combining LastName/Birthday fields! having them in one field already caused lots of confusion between uc users as i noticed within forums.
we need to patch the uc core to separate SKU/Model field into SKU and Model fields; and we need to do it carefully as right know uc requires SKU/Model field to be unique (requirement for SKU, 2 products can have the same model) but the machine readable field name is "model"
