A text search on the "BUYER" role type suggests that RoleType doesn't
actually do anything other than act as a label for Parties. I must be
missing something?
$ grep -r '"BUYER"' *
applications/securityext/data/UserDemoData.xml: <PartyRole
partyId="admin" roleTypeId="BUYER"/>
applications/securityext/data/UserDemoData.xml: <PartyRole
partyId="bizadmin" roleTypeId="BUYER"/>
applications/party/data/PartyTypeData.xml: <RoleType
description="Buyer" hasTable="N" parentTypeId="EMPLOYEE"
roleTypeId="BUYER"/>
applications/order/servicedef/orderProcessXPDL.xml:
<Participant Id="BUYER" Name="Purchase Order Approval Role">
applications/accounting/data/DemoPaymentsInvoices.xml: <PartyRole
partyId="AcctBuyer" roleTypeId="BUYER"/>
specialpurpose/workflow/data/OrderProcessWorkflow.xml:
<WorkflowParticipant packageId="org.ofbiz.order"
packageVersion="20030730144901" processId="_NA_" processVersion="_NA_"
participantId="BUYER" participantName="Purchase Order Approval Role"
description="Reviews and approves/rejects orders"
participantTypeId="ROLE"/>
specialpurpose/workflow/data/OrderProcessWorkflow.xml:
<WorkflowActivity packageId="org.ofbiz.order"
packageVersion="20030730144901" processId="ProcessOrder"
processVersion="20030730144901" activityId="approvePurchaseOrder"
objectName="Approve Purchase Order #${orderId}" objectPriority="5"
timeLimit="12.0" startModeEnumId="WAM_MANUAL"
finishModeEnumId="WAM_MANUAL" performerParticipantId="BUYER"
activityTypeEnumId="WAT_NO" canStart="N" joinTypeEnumId="WJT_XOR"
splitTypeEnumId="WST_XOR" acceptAllAssignments="N"
completeAllAssignments="N" limitService="sendProcessNotification"
limitAfterStart="N" delegateAfterStart="Y" restartOnDelegate="N"
inheritPriority="Y"/>
specialpurpose/ecommerce/data/DemoOrderPeopleData.xml: <PartyRole
partyId="DemoBuyer" roleTypeId="BUYER"/>
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 9:13 PM, chris snow <chsnow...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm manually working through the ecommerce demo setup data to create a
> new site and along the way gain more insight into the ofbiz data
> structures.
>
> When I encounter a RoleType, I want to know what effect this role has
> on ofbiz. For example, the RoleType: MANAGER,
>
> <Party partyId="admin" partyTypeId="PERSON"/>
> ...
> <PartyRole partyId="admin" roleTypeId="MANAGER"/>
>
> If I do a text search through the ofbiz source for "MANAGER", I can
> see that the MANAGER RoleType is used in several places, including:
>
> component://pos/src/org/ofbiz/pos/event/SecurityEvents.java
> component://webpos/src/org/ofbiz/webpos/session/WebPosSession.java
>
> From this I can deduce that the MANGER role has an influence on the
> behaviour of the pos and webpos components.
>
> Searching for individual RoleType's is insightful, but is time
> consuming. Is there an easier way for me to understand how various
> RoleType's influence the ofbiz processes?
>
> If there isn't an easier way, I'm happy to continue my search process
> and create a wiki page to document the various RoleType's and their
> effect on the behaviour of ofbiz.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Chris
>
