When a mine puts a spot out to tender, several engineering companies
each ask us to price the same item list. Before pricing a new one the
operator wants to see what the earlier quote went out at.
The per-line answer already existed: populateItemIntel powers the ⓘ
popover on each row and returns recent_quote (prior quote number,
company, selling price, days ago). This adds no new matching logic —
it runs that same lookup across every line of a quote and rolls the
results up, so the operator gets one panel instead of clicking ⓘ on
each row.
What the roll-up adds over the per-line popover:
- "N of M lines have been quoted before" at a glance
- relatedQuotes ranked by HOW MANY of this quote's lines they also
carried; a prior quote covering 5 of 5 is very likely the same
tender from a different bidder, one covering 1 of 5 is a shared
commodity line
Two honesty details, both driven by what the first live run showed:
- match confidence is surfaced as close/likely/loose. The underlying
matcher accepts anything above 0.5, and a live check returned a
R150 hit against a magnetic base drill — a loose row must not look
as trustworthy as a close one.
- an unpriced prior quote renders "unpriced", never R0.00, which
would read as "we quoted it at zero".
Read-only: passes write:false so viewing the panel doesn't persist
intel onto rows the operator only looked at. On-demand rather than
auto-loading, since it costs one intel computation per line
(~400-650ms each, batched 5 at a time, capped at 40 lines).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
