David,
Oh yeah, how could I have missed that? It obviously implies that you
have looked into details such as the WorkOrderItemFulfillment entity and
any artifacts that might be based on it.
Sorry. :/ Was just frustrated that there's no insightful, incisive, "leap from where I left off"
answers from the mailing list so far. Weekend. Understandable.
Back to being serious: yes, I do my best to guess at what people are
trying to ask because there is often a tendency to leave out details. I
think sometimes people leave out details assuming others will know what
they are talking about, or to try to not appear to be stating the
obvious. Once you get to around 700 tables and 600,000 lines of fairly
dense artifacts in a system, as much detail as possible is not just
helpful, it's critical!
I'll admit freely that sometimes when I answer questions I'll try to use
the "teach to fish" approach versus the "give a fish" approach. My
message to you was along these lines as most of the time you can get far
more information far more quickly doing something like what I
recommended than by asking on the mailing list.
If I was wrong to interpret that you were asking a fairly general
question, I apologize and invite you to ask a more specific question,
then hopefully I or someone else will be able to offer a more fitting
answer.
Sorry again. You meant well.
I do often leave out details, guilty as charged, thinking that I could talk to the mailing list as
if they've dug into OFBiz as much as I have (and I believe many have dug in much more). I just
didn't realize it's so hard to navigate through 700 tables and 600,000 lines. Or rather, I didn't
realize that not many people dive through 600,00 lines of codes to pinpoint merely 50 lines (or in
my lazy ass case, 5-10) of codes. That's what I do, being so incredibly "lazy", that was my job
too, to be lazy like that. :) Anyway, enough about my job or lazy past.
I'll fish, I promise you. Thanks for your guidance.
As for what my specific question was, I'd just like to know if anyone's linked entity OrderItem
with entity WorkEffort outside of the confirmOrder service (confirm order upon checkout at
storefront). If not, I'd like someone to tell me if it's advisable to allow for such a link, say
from inside the ShowProductionRun screen (sorry, my convention here is to state the servlet action
for lack of a better screen name) or the EditOrderItems screen (but the former is preferable).
Also, I'd like someone to tell me if I'll be breaking anything by allowing for such a link.
Does the mailing list generally take a break in the weekends? Sorry, dumb question. I'm a
workaholic. Lazy workaholic. Maybe schizophrenic too, come to think of it.
Jonathon
