I imagine this is an issue for you because you have something else defining your fixedAssetId such as Quickbooks.
While the screens are setup to accommodate this practice, this does set you up for problems down the road (we ran into this early on with the product entity). FixedAsset.fixedAssetId is treated as a surrogate key throughout the services of OFBiz. Because of this trying, to apply meaning to the key is likely to cause you problems later on, especially in cases of data entry error (typos). What we've done in our deployment is something similar to the GoodIdentification entity but generic to accommodate more entities. We chose this approach over adding a FixedAsset.externalId field because we wanted to normalize other identifications of the fixed asset (serialNumber) so we could create generic services to handle identification requests. --- Anil Patel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > We have forms that handle create/update entity data. > One of the common > problems user run into is, In the Create New Form > (e.g New FixedAsset) user > enters value in Id field. There is possibility that > the value entered may > already exist in database. In such situations, Form > returns with error > message, But also Opens existing entity in > Edit/Update mode in the form. > This confuses user. > > Most of these create/update form directly post to > CRUD services. Is it OK if > I added a Simple Method event handler that took the > request call and > forwarded to CRUD service and then on return of > service check if there is > error, In case of error set the value of primary key > field to nothing so the > create/update form will not be able to read existing > entity to open it in > Edit mode. > > If this is Ok to do, Should I add Event handler > simple methods in existing > services xml files (e.g FixedAssetServices.xml) Or > should I create a new > file that will have such event handler simple > methods. > > If I can get Feedback on this email it will be easy > to prepare a patch to > fix http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-547. > > Regards > Anil Patel >
