Ah a trunk update. Darn

David E Jones sent the following on 11/8/2007 10:23 AM:
> 
> Not sure where you've looked so far to find this, but it does exist. The
> name of the entity is PartyCarrierAccount.
> 
> To find stuff like this the easiest thing is to browse around either the
> entitymodel.xml file or the Entity Reference pages in WebTools. The best
> place to start in either is the entities related to the Party entity, as
> you're looking for information attached to a party.
> 
> Hope that helps, and best of luck.
> 
> -David
> 
> 
> On Nov 8, 2007, at 10:45 AM, Vince M. Clark wrote:
> 
>> This will give us the ability to capture the shipping account info for
>> a party. So at least we could populate a notes field to notify sales
>> reps. But we would still need to create any logic, right? For example,
>> when selecting a shipment method look for content mechs for the party
>> on the order of type "Shipping Account" or something like that. That
>> still doesn't give us the ability to pass an alternate billing account
>> number to the shipping company. We would have to take this all the way
>> to it's logical conclusion in order to automate.
>>
>> Vince Clark
>> Global Era
>> The Freedom of Open Source
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> (303) 493-6723
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "BJ Freeman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> To: [email protected]
>> Sent: Thursday, November 8, 2007 10:18:30 AM (GMT-0700) America/Denver
>> Subject: Re: Different Shipping Accounts per Party
>>
>> you can setup a contact mech.
>> just add a contactmech purpose
>> and type if they don't exist
>>
>> https://localhost:8443/webtools/control/ViewRelations?entityName=ContactMechType
>>
>> https://localhost:8443/webtools/control/FindGeneric?entityName=ContactMechType&find=true&VIEW_SIZE=50&VIEW_INDEX=0
>>
>> https://localhost:8443/webtools/control/FindGeneric?entityName=ContactMechTypePurpose&find=true&VIEW_SIZE=50&VIEW_INDEX=0
>>
>> Vince M. Clark sent the following on 11/8/2007 8:51 AM:
>>> Is it possible to use different shipping accounts for calculating
>>> rates and getting tracking number and labels based on the Party on an
>>> order? For example, a large retailer such as Wal-Mart would want all
>>> shipments charged to their UPS or FedEx accounts to take advantage of
>>> the volume discounts they have negotiated with shippers. I do not see
>>> anywhere in Party Profile to add Shipping Accounts.
>>>
>>> As I think about this I am not optimistic this can be done since
>>> these accounts are setup in a properties file.
>>>
>>> Any ideas on a workaround would be appreciated.
>>>
>>> Vince Clark
>>> Global Era
>>> The Freedom of Open Source
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> (303) 493-6723
>>>
> 

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