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ddev commented on OFBIZ-12364:
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This is a bit of a tangent, so I put this in a separate second comment, but
does anyone know why EmplPosition does not have a description field? (Note I'm
asking about *EmplPosition* not *EmplPositionType* (which we have been talking
about up to this point)
Example data:
EmplPositionType:
we create a type for a administrative assistant:
emplPositionTypeId = 100, description = "Does administrative assistant type
things"
EmplPosition:
we create a position for the administrative assistant for Bob:
emplPositionId = 201, emplPositionTypeId = 100, \{dates and flags...}
we create a position for the administrative assistant for John:
emplPositionId = 202, emplPositionTypeId = 100, \{dates and flags...}
(there is no way to tell which position is for Bobs assistant and which
position is for Johns assistant)
Obviously a description field can be added to EmplPosition, and some companies
will have positions types with interchangeable positions, but I have trouble
imagining many companies that don't have *some* non-interchangable positions.
When I see things like that it makes me wonder if I'm misunderstanding how the
EmplPosition table is supposed to be used. Since how I'm understanding it, the
need for a description field in EmplPosition would be so prevalent that I would
expect it to be in the book.
> Incorrect definition and usage of EmplPositionType?
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>
> Key: OFBIZ-12364
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-12364
> Project: OFBiz
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: humanres
> Affects Versions: Trunk
> Reporter: ddev
> Priority: Major
> Attachments: ofbiz-empl-position-type-patch.diff
>
>
> In the Data Model Resouce Book, on page 326 (or on page 306, depending on how
> you are counting pages), it shows EmplPositionType having fields "title" for
> the position title, and "description" to describe what the position is
> supposed to be about.
> However, EmplPositionType in ofbiz is missing the "title" field.
> Fixing this is a simple one line patch.
> However, additionally ofbiz seed data seems to put the title data in the
> description field, like so:
> applications/datamodel/data/seed/HumanResSeedData.xml: <EmplPositionType
> description="Chief Executive Officer" hasTable="N" emplPositionTypeId="CEO"/>
> This is a simple patch as well (patch is attached)
> But does this mean we would assume that people are putting the title in the
> description field in their local database, meaning we wouldn't patch it
> without some kind of translation system to move the description data to the
> title field. What about those people who are using the field correctly
> already?
>
>
>
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