as a side note the book says the reason for a vehicle entity it to track in its location. Since an asset also needs to be tracked for it location that is why ofbiz uses the asset. few months ago some added entities were connected to the assets for give lon/lat so the tracking is also done thru the asset entity.
BJ Freeman sent the following on 5/11/2009 3:29 PM: > you will notice on page 179 that a vehicle is a sub type of Fixed > Assets. so if the enterprise owns the vehicle, the Fixed asset is > assigned to the ship using. > otherwise it is shipvia using a carrier ship method > look on page 217 fixed asset assignments. > > > > Deyan Tsvetanov sent the following on 5/11/2009 1:46 PM: >> P.S. >> I'm sorry , forgot to include the details ... >> >> "The book" - pages 178 - 181 ( Shipment Routing and Shipment Vehicle ). >> >> >> >> >> On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 23:32 +0300, Deyan Tsvetanov wrote: >>> Hi there, >>> >>> I have a question regarding the ofbiz data model. >>> >>> There is a relationship "shipped_using" between shipment_route_segment >>> and fixed_asset ( vehicle ) in "The Book". >>> >>> However in the ofbiz data model there isn't any vehicle relationship >>> between from either shipment_route_segment or >>> shipment_package_route_segment. >>> >>> My question is: what is the rationale ? Is that a miss or a hit ? :) >>> A bug or a feature ? >>> >>> Thanks in advance, >>> Deyan >>> >>> >> > -- BJ Freeman http://www.businessesnetwork.com/automation http://bjfreeman.elance.com http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=1237480&locale=en_US&trk=tab_pro Systems Integrator.
