I was confused for a while
I can see your point about code and number
how about type added one for shipping the other for marketing.

David E Jones sent the following on 10/27/2008 1:08 PM:
> 
> To me this doesn't seem like enough of a reason to change the field name.
> 
> Did you run into some big confusion between the terms "tracking code"
> and "tracking number"? In a way I don't like tracking number because
> most tracking "numbers" aren't really numbers, they include alpha
> letters and sometimes punctuation too.
> 
> I must admit though that I've never run into anything like this sort of
> confusion or any sort of related conflict in terms. Is there something
> online somewhere that my be helpful for me, and others similarly
> uniformed (if there are any)?
> 
> -David
> 
> 
> On Oct 26, 2008, at 9:38 AM, Joe Eckard wrote:
> 
>> ShipmentPackageRouteSeg has a field called trackingCode which should
>> really be trackingNumber (see: OrderItemShipGroup field
>> "trackingNumber" & standard industry terminology). The field name
>> "trackingCode" is used in the marketing entities and code to describe
>> something completely different.
>>
>> I created a patch for this, and it touches quite a few files - are
>> there any objections to this change?
>>
>> -Joe
> 
> 
> 

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