the other way is to go to pages you want the name displayed and change the bsh to look up the name and put in the context then add the fields on the UI.
Jim Yanda sent the following on 4/25/2008 11:31 AM: > Hi BJ, > What is the simple solution? > And is Entity Data Maintenance the only place where I add a party id? Or is > there another UI screen I can do this. When I create a new party in Party > Mgr., OFBiz assigns an ID number, not the name. > Thnx. > > > BJ Freeman wrote: >> 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. >
