Re: What's the best approach for custom fields: attributes vs extending entities?

2010-04-01 Thread Adrian Crum
Bob Morley wrote: Adrian Crum-2 wrote: I don't know if this is the best approach, but it is the one I use. Instead of extending the entity, I create a separate entity that contains the additional fields. Then I connect the original entity and the new entity together with a view entity. The CRUD

Re: What's the best approach for custom fields: attributes vs extending entities?

2010-04-01 Thread Bob Morley
th the "hasTable" attribute set to Y. One enhancement that would be nice is the ability to have Ofbiz understand entity inheritance and perform table joins under the covers (aka standard ORM tools like Hibernate). -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/What-s-the-best-approac

Re: What's the best approach for custom fields: attributes vs extending entities?

2010-04-01 Thread Adrian Crum
e best approach for custom fields: attributes vs extending > entities? > To: "user" > Date: Thursday, April 1, 2010, 4:16 AM > Different customers want to store > different kinds of data on their > agreements and its items. For us, the easiest way is to > extend the &g

What's the best approach for custom fields: attributes vs extending entities?

2010-04-01 Thread Jeroen van der Wal
Different customers want to store different kinds of data on their agreements and its items. For us, the easiest way is to extend the entities and add new fields to the forms. The drawback is that the entity and forms will end up containing all custom fields. The other option is to use attributes.

Re: extending entities

2009-07-20 Thread Rishi Solanki
> View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/extending-entities-tp24532076p24532076.html > Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >

extending entities

2009-07-17 Thread snowch
ntity definitions other than making a plain copy of the party and partyRelationship entities in my own application? Many thanks... -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/extending-entities-tp24532076p24532076.html Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.