This is a good question, and I'm surprised as I look at the data model
to see no Facility to Facility relationship. It was probably years
ago, but I thought there was a simple parentFacilityId or something on
the Facility entity that would implement a simple hierarchy for
Facilities.
It would be interesting to go way back and see if this was ever there
and what ultimately happened to it if it was, but for right now I'm
okay with adding this.
For Facility hierarchies I don't think we need a separate association
entity, to implement a graph, or a non-strict hierarchy where a node
can have multiple parents. A strict hierarchy should be fine for this,
where each Facility has only one parent Facility because this is a
constraint of their physical reality anyway.
-David
On Jul 25, 2008, at 11:06 AM, Adrian Crum wrote:
But that's not how it is structured in the book. Figure 2.11 shows a
facility being related to itself. It appears to me there needs to be
a parentFacilityId field.
-Adrian
BJ Freeman wrote:
make a facilities
like
building
floor
room
then make facilities group
then add the facilities to the group
Adrian Crum sent the following on 7/25/2008 9:05 AM:
In the Data Model Resource Book, chapter 2, it shows that
facilities can
be made up of other facilities. For example, a building facility
can be
made up of floor facilities, and the floor facilities can be made
up of
room facilities.
I don't see how this is done in OFBiz. Where do I make the
connection?
-Adrian
