to late for the simple solution. Make the ID the name. you can go into the UI and add the party Name
Jim Yanda sent the following on 4/23/2008 9:47 AM: > Hello, > Can someone suggest the best way to handle the following issue? > > We have several thousands companies (party groups) and more than ten > thousand contacts (persons). Each contact is related as an employee to the > company in which they work. > > When we are looking at a company's profile and click on 'relationships', we > see all of the contact IDs listed, not their names, so we can't tell who we > are looking at. We would like to be able to see their names, and have the > names be clickable so we can jump to that contact. > > Since we have a lot of companies and contacts being added all the time, we > don't want to manually enter an ID for each new party in Web Tools. We would > like to just let OFBiz assign an ID number automatically. > > For that matter, many of the screens in the various OFBiz apps show the > party ID instead of the name and it is not as easy to know what party you > are working with when all you see is an ID number. > > Your advice on solutions to this is appreciated. > > Thank you. > > Jim
