the basic use of roles it to define before there is data available.
it also is a way of selecting certain function (roles) of a party.
The Demo data is not complete and is there to show that one of the roles
you can have is BUYER.
these are covered in the Datamodel book vol I.
chris snow sent the following on 9/19/2010 1:40 PM:
A text search on the "BUYER" role type suggests that RoleType doesn't
actually do anything other than act as a label for Parties. I must be
missing something?
$ grep -r '"BUYER"' *
applications/securityext/data/UserDemoData.xml:<PartyRole
partyId="admin" roleTypeId="BUYER"/>
applications/securityext/data/UserDemoData.xml:<PartyRole
partyId="bizadmin" roleTypeId="BUYER"/>
applications/party/data/PartyTypeData.xml:<RoleType
description="Buyer" hasTable="N" parentTypeId="EMPLOYEE"
roleTypeId="BUYER"/>
applications/order/servicedef/orderProcessXPDL.xml:
<Participant Id="BUYER" Name="Purchase Order Approval Role">
applications/accounting/data/DemoPaymentsInvoices.xml:<PartyRole
partyId="AcctBuyer" roleTypeId="BUYER"/>
specialpurpose/workflow/data/OrderProcessWorkflow.xml:
<WorkflowParticipant packageId="org.ofbiz.order"
packageVersion="20030730144901" processId="_NA_" processVersion="_NA_"
participantId="BUYER" participantName="Purchase Order Approval Role"
description="Reviews and approves/rejects orders"
participantTypeId="ROLE"/>
specialpurpose/workflow/data/OrderProcessWorkflow.xml:
<WorkflowActivity packageId="org.ofbiz.order"
packageVersion="20030730144901" processId="ProcessOrder"
processVersion="20030730144901" activityId="approvePurchaseOrder"
objectName="Approve Purchase Order #${orderId}" objectPriority="5"
timeLimit="12.0" startModeEnumId="WAM_MANUAL"
finishModeEnumId="WAM_MANUAL" performerParticipantId="BUYER"
activityTypeEnumId="WAT_NO" canStart="N" joinTypeEnumId="WJT_XOR"
splitTypeEnumId="WST_XOR" acceptAllAssignments="N"
completeAllAssignments="N" limitService="sendProcessNotification"
limitAfterStart="N" delegateAfterStart="Y" restartOnDelegate="N"
inheritPriority="Y"/>
specialpurpose/ecommerce/data/DemoOrderPeopleData.xml:<PartyRole
partyId="DemoBuyer" roleTypeId="BUYER"/>
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 9:13 PM, chris snow<[email protected]> wrote:
I'm manually working through the ecommerce demo setup data to create a
new site and along the way gain more insight into the ofbiz data
structures.
When I encounter a RoleType, I want to know what effect this role has
on ofbiz. For example, the RoleType: MANAGER,
<Party partyId="admin" partyTypeId="PERSON"/>
...
<PartyRole partyId="admin" roleTypeId="MANAGER"/>
If I do a text search through the ofbiz source for "MANAGER", I can
see that the MANAGER RoleType is used in several places, including:
component://pos/src/org/ofbiz/pos/event/SecurityEvents.java
component://webpos/src/org/ofbiz/webpos/session/WebPosSession.java
From this I can deduce that the MANGER role has an influence on the
behaviour of the pos and webpos components.
Searching for individual RoleType's is insightful, but is time
consuming. Is there an easier way for me to understand how various
RoleType's influence the ofbiz processes?
If there isn't an easier way, I'm happy to continue my search process
and create a wiki page to document the various RoleType's and their
effect on the behaviour of ofbiz.
Many thanks,
Chris
