On Dec 17, 2009, at 5:34 PM, Scott Gray wrote: > On 18/12/2009, at 12:15 PM, David E Jones wrote: > >> >> Basically it means that the from party is not in the role that you've >> specified. >> >> The original idea with party roles in OFBiz was to not accidentally add >> parties to roles when a party in a role is referred to somewhere. >> >> I've thought a few times that maybe it's not the best idea to do so, and >> instead whenever a party is implied to be in a role if they are not already >> then they should be added automatically. > > If we did that (which I'm in favor of), what purpose would the PartyRole > entity continue to serve?
That's a good question. It would still keep track of which party is in which role... but really that information shouldn't be used alone, ie it should only be used in the context of defining a party's relationship with something else. -David
