BJ Are you suggesting there is new functionality related to this in OfBiz trunk?
I found the entity David referred to, but the only place I'm finding related services is in opentaps-common. I haven't searched OfBiz trunk yet because we do not sync with trunk on production environments. 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: Friday, November 9, 2007 11:15:36 AM (GMT-0700) America/Denver Subject: Re: Different Shipping Accounts per Party 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 >>> >
