unless you have some compelling reason, I suggest just create a person.
Now if you have a compelling reason then in your same call, just add the
calls in create a person and set the roll.
the second way you can determine what roll you want the ID to have.
Ashish Vijaywargiya sent the following on 4/14/2008 9:16 AM:
> Thanks BJ for your reply.
> I know the details that you wrote in your reply.
>
> I was only concerned to know that should I generate a partyId when I need to
> do so or I should directly call "createPerson" for doing this job for me.
>
> Although I generated the partyId by using <sequenced-id-to-env> and the same
> is being done in createPerson service if partyId is not supplied.
>
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 12:05 PM, BJ Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> I believe this is so you don't use a number that may have been already
>> generated. The default ID for ofbiz are numbers.
>> if your going to use numbers either append a letter to it or allow ofbiz
>> to assign the ID.
>>
>>
>> Pranay Pandey sent the following on 4/14/2008 8:53 AM:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> The scenario is:
>>> I wrote a simple event for creating a party by generating the partyId in
>> it
>>> by <sequenced-id-to-env.
>>> Now i am passing auto generated partyId to "createPerson" service.
>>> But the code snippet from PartyServices.java retruns me the error
>> message.
>>> // if specified partyId starts with a number, return an error
>>> if (partyId != null && partyId.length() > 0 &&
>>> Character.isDigit(partyId.charAt(0))) {
>>> return
>>> ServiceUtil.returnError(UtilProperties.getMessage(resource,
>>> "party.id_is_digit", locale));
>>> }
>>>
>>> If this is the case then we can't use this service i.e. "createPerson"
>> in
>>> our custom service while generating partyId earlier and then passing it
>> to
>>> this service.
>>>
>>> Thoughts ???
>>>
>>
>
>
