RE: Theory of Composite keys with From date vs Thru date?

In my experience, thruDate is always null until the entity is expired. You therefore get records where now is >= fromDate (or whatever expression you need) and then use the the entityUtil.filterByDate function to remove entities that have expired. There is perhaps 200 instances of this if

Re: Theory of Composite keys with From date vs Thru date?

Thanks Pierre and Taher for your responses, a couple of follow-ups below: On 8/9/16 01:44, Pierre Smits wrote: The one thing is related to creating a unique key based on the fromDate in combination with the other elements of the primary key. As an example, have a look at the following

Re: OFBiz Blog - July 2016 Update

Thanks for the reply, Sharan. I like the idea of a formal survey, which might carry more gravitas in the medium term. Mailing list threads tend to be informal, and ideas therein can get forgotten or even buried (not that it has happened here ... but it's a classic bureaucratic trick to offer

webpos ofbiz14.12

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Re: [DISCUSSION] User base Survey to Gather Feature Requirements?

Hi Sharan, I have a list that keeps getting bigger for ideas on what to do. I am thinking though that it would render a very long discussion if I share it, so maybe we just do one thing at a time? We already did it successfully with Gradle. So my top preference right now is to introduce a plugin

[DISCUSSION] User base Survey to Gather Feature Requirements?

Hi All I'm starting this discussion thread based on a suggestion from Todd about the possibility of doing a userbase survey to help gather information on potential feature requests.

Re: OFBiz Blog - July 2016 Update

Hi Todd I think the mailing list is a good tool for talking about potential new features. If there is some functionality that someone wants then having a discussion about it on the mailing list helps to find others from the community with the same or similar requirements. Do you already have

Re: OFBiz Blog - July 2016 Update

Yes, the work being accomplished is admirable. There have been quite a few new contributor sign-ups lately, so hopefully the codebase will continue to progress & excel. Here's a question: is there a process within the OFBiz project, beyond JIRA, for gathering feature requests from users? A

RE: Ofbiz Cookbook

... For both minilang and widgets the reason on our end is that neither technology is used anywhere outside of the ofbiz project and thus adds to the overall learning-curve for newcomers. We much rather rely on trusted alternatives that are easier to pick up for our project ;) Cheers, Paul I

OFBiz Blog - July 2016 Update

Hi Everyone Our monthly blog update is now available at the link below https://blogs.apache.org/ofbiz/entry/apache_ofbiz_news_july_2016 As always, big thanks to Michael and Jacques for their help in reviewing it and putting it together. Taking a quick look at the list of improvements and bug

Re: Ofbiz Cookbook

I would like to add to what Scott already mentioned that minilang is not only difficult to debug but also overly verbose. However, minilang exists and continues to be used I think because of the ctrl-space auto complete combined with XSD definitions for the statements. This makes it a DSL (not

Re: [MARKETING] Getting Some OFBiz Logo Stickers Printed

No comment Sharan, just nice to have the new logo for the next Apachecon :) Nicolas Le 09/08/2016 à 14:25, Sharan Foga a écrit : Hi All A quick update - I'm organising getting some OFBiz stickers printed with the new logo for Apachecon (and any other events). Most modern stickers are die

Re: [MARKETING] Getting Some OFBiz Logo Stickers Printed

Hi Sharan, I prefer when stickers have the shape of the logo as well. Have a nice day \o/ Julien. On 09/08/2016 14:25, Sharan Foga wrote: Hi All A quick update - I'm organising getting some OFBiz stickers printed with the new logo for Apachecon (and any other events). Most modern

[MARKETING] Getting Some OFBiz Logo Stickers Printed

Hi All A quick update - I'm organising getting some OFBiz stickers printed with the new logo for Apachecon (and any other events). Most modern stickers are die cut (this means that they take on the shape of the logo rather than being square, round or oval etc) – so this is what I would

Re: Ofbiz Cookbook

Very interesting discussion. What paul has mentioned is making perfect sense. Best regards, Pranay Pandey HotWax Systems http://www.hotwaxsystems.com/ On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 1:39 PM, Paul Piper wrote: > Skip, > > I fear that you may be right with regards to minilang and the

RE: Ofbiz Cookbook

I'm certainly no fan of minilang. I prefer something I can step through with a debugger. Regards Scott On 9/08/2016 20:55, "Paul Piper" wrote: > Skip, > > I fear that you may be right with regards to minilang and the community, > though luckily with your own projects you can

RE: Ofbiz Cookbook

Skip, I fear that you may be right with regards to minilang and the community, though luckily with your own projects you can set your own standards. I learned the hard way that minilang leads to more cluttered code and though there are some benefits (the automapping of service maps or entity-auto

Re: Theory of Composite keys with From date vs Thru date?

Hi Brian, Welcome to the OFBiz community. It seems to me that you are mixing two different things, but I might be misunderstanding you. The one thing is related to creating a unique key based on the fromDate in combination with the other elements of the primary key. As an example, have a look

Re: Theory of Composite keys with From date vs Thru date?

Hi Brian, As per my understanding some entities have only one relevant date and most of these dates represent the issue date (from_date). Also for relationship entities the date that matters is the fromDate because what you care about is the linking date. Usually the way I search through the