From what I recall, the idea is for a customer service person to ask
how long the customer has been at that address, and the customer would
respond with a time duration of months or years. There are no exact
dates in the scenario.
I would recommend using a TimeDuration to calculate a fromDate based on
the current date. So, the CSR enters months or years at current address,
and a service calculates PartyContactMech.fromDate based on that
information.
-Adrian
On 5/30/2012 12:34 AM, Adam Heath wrote:
I noticed the 2 fields in the subject, but didn't actually recoginize
them(I've been using ofbiz for a *long* time). I did a big of
digging, and noticed that those fields were added to the model in
2006-05-04(1), and were first utilized when anonymous checkout was
added 2006-11-28(2). There has been no real use of the 2 fields since
then.
Why do they have to exist? Why can't DATE_TRUNC or some other sql
function be used? Or normal Timestamp manipulation on fromDate/thruDate?
1: http://svn.ofbiz.org/svn/ofbiz/trunk@7513
2: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/ofbiz/trunk@479879
