Hi, partyId - P.K of Party entity. Party entity is used to represent a party (may be of any type (PERSON or PARTY_GROUP) and role(CUSTOMER, BUYER, SELLER)). We can say that partyId is used to uniquely identify a party (it may be customer or any other party in the business).
contactMechId - P.K of ContactMech entity. ContactMech entity is used to represent a contact mechanism (which may be of any type say TelecomNumber, EmailAddress, PostalAddress, WebAddress),we can say this entity is the container entity of all contact mechanism. That is why the ContactMech is also associated to TelecomNumber entity as well PostalAddress entity. Now all contact mechanisms are uniquely identified by contactMechId which may be EmailAdress or PostalAddress or any other. Now which contact mechanism is for which party is maintained in the entity PartyConatactMech intersection entity. The significance of contactMechId is we can find thru it whether it is contactMechId of PostalAddress or any other type. Another significance of using contactMechId is we have a common entity ContactMech which captures the P.K of all types of contact mechanisms. HTH !!! Rishi Solanki Enterprise Software Developer HotWax Media Pvt. Ltd. On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 10:52 PM, su2 <shu...@pexsupply.com> wrote: > > What is the significance of contactMechID? > > > > > su2 wrote: > > > > Hello Friends, > > > > What is the difference between partyId & contactMechID ? Where can I find > > the relation between them? > > > > Thanks for the help in advance. > > > > Su- > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/contactMechId---partyId-tp25530830p25530834.html > Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >
