but the problem is performFind cannot do that.... and adding this to performfind is a major undertaking for us...
so be it.... On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 22:38 -0600, David E Jones wrote: > The more common approach is to design the search or other > functionality to be more flexible, because at the end of the day there > is no way to guarantee a value for many fields, and really to keep > things easy to use and customize in OFBiz we don't want to require too > many fields. Instead the functionality related to those fields should > silently do nothing if the data is not available. > > In general just treat null/empty like the default value. In this case > that's probably PARTY_ENABLED. > > -David > > > On Sep 29, 2008, at 10:06 PM, Hans Bakker wrote: > > > The problem: > > currently the status field in party is not checked in the performFind > > service, so all popups for party show disabled parties. > > > > The performfind service can only check on 'and-ed' fields, > > so to add the status="PARTY_ENABLED" condition could be a solution. > > However that means that the party status field cannot be empty. > > > > In order to solve this the following is proposed: > > 1. change all demo data to include the party status field > > 2. make sure that by default the create party service sets this > > field to > > "PARTY_ENABLED" > > 3. provide a conversion service where existing data can be modified to > > fill the empty status field with "PARTY_ENABLED". > > > > > > any comments or suggestions? > > > > -- > > Antwebsystems.com: Quality OFBiz services for competitive prices > > > > > -- Antwebsystems.com: Quality OFBiz services for competitive prices
