On Jul 25, 2008, at 4:18 PM, Adrian Crum wrote:
David E Jones wrote:
Some options might be:
1. use the FixedAsset owner (and similar concepts) to identify who
to send it to, either directly or through a PartyRelationship to
someone in the organization in charge of managing fixed asset
maintenance (and similar concepts in other areas); the idea would
be to use the natural organization and relationships that companies
would want to setup anyway, and use that for as much as possible,
including these notifications; this reduces setup and maintenance
complexity and makes the system in general easier to use and
understand, and if flexibility points are needed for funny
situations in the future we can look at that then
So, go from fixed asset to the related party in the role of owner,
then look for a party related to the owner in the role of
Maintenance Manager? When that party is located, which email address
is used? Or do we assume they have only one?
Probably just the primary email address. I don't know if it's worth
having a special purpose for this... is it common in your situation to
need a separate email for this sort of thing?
One thing to consider is that the related party (Maintenance Manager)
could be a PartyGroup, with a special email address used just for this
purpose, but that would be chosen by the user depending how they want
to setup that relationship.
2. create a central set of Party or just ContactMech/email records
with different purposes, and look up the one to use for the
relevant area; this could be tied to the set of notifications
available when those are configured so simplify and centralize
administration
Do you mean set up a contact mech type specific to each notification
process, then list all contact mechs matching that type for the user
to choose from? In that case, I'll need an entity to make the
connection from FixedAsset to ContectMech.
No, this would be more like what Jacopo suggested with the
communication configuration per company. Along with configuring
outgoing emails we would configure the fromPartyId or a
fromContactMechId.
-David
