I can think of two main ways of doing this:
1. list explicitly/inline the roles you want to show (instead of doing
a query)
2. create a parent role and put the roles you want under it and query
by the parent ID
As for which roles to use, and whether to create or not, it's totally
okay to add new roles but you might consider keeping the roles used
more general and use ideas like "manager" and "worker" (or assignee,
performer, whatever) instead of very specific ones.
-David
On Jun 9, 2008, at 11:45 AM, Adrian Crum wrote:
I have expanded the functionality of Asset Maintenance. Currently,
maintenance tasks are assigned automatically to the logged-in user
and there is no way to change it or assign the task to someone else.
I have added the ability to assign maintenance tasks to someone else.
The assignment requires a party role. Presenting the user with a
list of all roles to pick from is not user-friendly because the list
is quite long. I would like to have a smaller list that is more
Fixed Asset Maintenance specific. I'm not sure how I should
implement the smaller role list.
I'm thinking the list should contain three roles: an outside
service, a maintenance manager, and a maintenance worker. Should I
use existing roles, or create new ones?
Another idea is to populate the list with parties/roles that are
already related to the fixed asset in question.
Any advice would be appreciated!
-Adrian
