first I suggest you read the Data modeling books, though content
component is not covered.
Book II has to-do with engineering.
There is a discussion on the dev list about documents in ofbiz.
Most system I have dealt with have paper drawing or Microfiche.
Look at vol II page 37 part specification and documentation.
specifically Document.
you can use the Document.imageData for scan sheets.
you can add a an new entity that is a relationship between documents and
the information in a external system or want use the content component
through dataresources.
Olivier Tremblay sent the following on 7/5/2010 12:43 PM:
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Hi again!
I'm looking for a way to attach pdf files (or any type of files) to a product.
I wish to be able to have our engineers link plans to parts, in such a way that
it would be very simple, viewing any product, to generate a list of all the
parts required to build it, and have access to all the plans for our guys at
manufacturing. It would eventually be useful for a client wanting to change a
piece, I think.
Up to now, I have dabbled in the "Content" application, but I don't think I have done it
right. I wanted to create a new content type, called "plans" or something, and be able to
upload that extra piece of information for each product based on the new content type I created...
The idea is that the engineers could just attach the files themselves with no
intervention on my part whatsoever. Am I on the right track? My googling around
and searching on the mailing list didn't seem to point directly to that, and/or
suggested that I couldn't just configure it on OFBiz out of the box without
messing around with the code a little bit.
Thanks again,
Olivier
