IMHO the 1st ismandatory, up to you for the 2d (I did not read it) Jacques
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathon -- Improov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <ofbiz-user@incubator.apache.org> Cc: "Tom Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2007 11:08 AM Subject: Re: Starting and completing a production run > No! My cat is a person, I'm telling you! Now, everybody, this is "Catherine > Kitty". No, I don't > have a cat, just kidding. > > We used to say that our rifles should be our wives (the army taught us). Join > the army, they say. > Hard to avoid having our object model messed up. Then our bayonets would be > our girlfriends, and > our swiss knives mistresses. > > Anybody has any opinions of the data model books recommended on > http://ofbiz.apache.org/documents.html ? > > The Data Model Resource Book, Vol. 1: A Library of Universal Data Models for > All Enterprises > The Data Model Resource Book, Vol. 2: A Library of Data Models for Specific > Industries > > Jonathon > > Jacques Le Roux wrote: > > What about MAMAL ? ;p > > > > Jacques > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Chris Howe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <ofbiz-user@incubator.apache.org> > > Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2007 5:30 AM > > Subject: Re: Starting and completing a production run > > > > > >> --- Jonathon -- Improov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> > >>> Eg, the Party concept is flexible and great, so I > >>> can even make my cat a "person". So is the > >>> Product concept, allowing for multi-level BOMs > >>> easily. > >>> > >> Now that's just silly ;) To correctly model the > >> inclusion of your cat, you would need ... > >> > >> 1) Create a partyTypeId of ANIMAL > >> 2) Depending on your specificity of data collection > >> make another PartyTypeId of CAT > >> 3) Make the partyTypeId ANIMAL a parent to CAT > >> 4) review the majority of things dealing with parties > >> to consider if they should be dealing with instances > >> of cats or animals > >> > >> otherwise you are simply misrepresenting your data > >> :o) > > > >
