Heres the thing. We have a customer profile of type ‘Delivery’ which contains a delivery address for an order. It also has other non-addressfield data like driver route, delivery day (M-F, day of week), default product (recurring order kit), and delivery frequency (how often to receive new orders).
The customer can, at any time, change their delivery frequency, default product, and delivery address. Here is the issue… any slight change and/or order reference and the profile is cloned. I get that Drupal Commerce does this to preserve historical order data integrity, however, the new profile ID needs to be assigned to all non-completed orders. We can’t store this as a Profile2 object, because changing address or product affects their available delivery day and driver route, which has to go along with the order.
Orders are generated by the system based on this profile data… so it is important to maintain order reference and the ‘newest’ profile of record that is the basis for new orders and any editing. Profile data cannot be edited at the order level itself.
I am having a lot of difficulty wrapping my head around how to wrangle profiles to either prevent dozens of clones or making it make sense to administrators (Views reports will show tons of user profiles).
What is the most sensible way to manage this? Currently I have set up a Rule that when a customer profile is created or updated, the profile ID is proliferated through orders… but not sure this is the best approach.
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