Thanks David.
I searched for this and didn't find any references which say it was
being populated earlier.
What you have suggested seems reasonable to me. I have done changes in
the code for three processes which create shipment which are:
1. Verify Pick
2. Packing
3. Quick Ship
Followed 4 points you gave here. I will soon create a jira issue and
upload the patch for the same.
Thanks again.
Kind Regards
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Pranay Pandey
On Jun 5, 2009, at 5:15 AM, David E Jones wrote:
NOTE: replying on the dev list since this involves development of
OFBiz itself.
While we could have it look at a different role I agree that instead
populating the SHIP_FROM_VENDOR is a better approach, with some
issues though.
Part of the reason I think it's a better approach is that it is more
flexible as this information can come from various places. On the
other hand, that also makes it more difficult to implement because
it can come from multiple places.
How this happened is a good question. If anyone wants to do some SVN
forensics and see if this was ever populated, or the code used to
look for a different role, or whatever the cause of this problem was
it would be interesting.
Anyway, moving forward... the easiest way to populate this would be
to set it to the same value as the BILL_FROM_VENDOR, but really they
can be different and that's the point of having the different roles.
To make this more interesting there can be different
SHIP_FROM_VENDOR parties for different OrderItemShipGroup records in
an order. In other words, we can't look at the OrderRole or
OrderItemRole values for this, it has to be per ship group.
Based on that here is what I think we should change it to do:
1. first look at the OrderItemShipGroup.vendorPartyId and use that
if it is populated
2. if that is not populated look up the ship-from Facility using the
OrderItemShipGroup.facilityId, and then look at the facility owner
using the Facility.ownerPartyId field
3. if neither of those is populated look for an OrderRole for
SHIP_FROM_VENDOR
4. if that is also not found then default to the OrderRole for
BILL_FROM_VENDOR
Does that sounds reasonable? Does anyone else have any thoughts on
how this can/should work?
-David
On Jun 4, 2009, at 9:37 AM, Pranay Pandey wrote:
Hello All,
Here I am giving details of the issue:
1. What I did:
a. Created a Sales order.
b. Completed Packing process.
c. Got a shipment created.
d. Viewed Shipment details.
2. What did I expect:
Wanted to check "to" and "from" parties there.
3. What did I get:
Got "to" party but didn't see "from" party there.
I looked in to the process and code and can see that there is no
OrderRole is being set for Company to "SHIP_FROM_VENDOR" for sales
orders. We are not setting it in the cart to go there for further
processing.
So at the time when createShipment service called it doesn't find
this role for shipment.partyIdFrom in ShipmentServices.xml lines
437 to 447 and leaves it without partyId and we don't have it in
created shipment.
So now the main concern is that should we set a OrderRole for
Company to SHIP_FROM_VENDOR for a sales order which is not done at
this moment.
Thanks & Regards
--
Pranay Pandey
