So. While reading chapter 2 oft volume 1 i see that i was on the right track. Everything is a party.
Roles: Are they also optional like the classification? If i assign BILL_TO_CUSTOMER but not CUSTOMER will that be a problem? Or can one choose to do it as fine-grained as needed? => The book states they will inherit the ID of their super type. Does this mean adding BILL_TO_CUSTOMER will automatically make them CUSTOMER? Relationships: What do the fields "in the role of" and "is A" mean. Person A is a customer of Company C which is selling both goods and services: To Party ID: ID_A in the role of: Customer is A: Customer ??? >From party ID: ID_B in the role of: Supplier ??? Would this be correct? What would be correct? I also don't think that i will find anything about the log-in details provided for Customer, Prospect and Employee in this book, since it seems too ofbiz specific. Could you enlighten me about what this is used for? Regards, Adrian On 11 February 2014 15:39, Adrian Crum <[email protected]>wrote: > I would recommend purchasing Volume 1 of The Data Model Resource book. It > will contain most of what you need (and it will answer your questions here). > > Volume 2 contains industry-specific data models, and it would be good to > have as well, but it is not essential. > > Adrian Crum > Sandglass Software > www.sandglass-software.com > > > On 2/11/2014 4:48 AM, Adrian Stern wrote: > >> Hi >> >> I'm playing around with the AP and AR module and for that i need to create >> a Party (Customer). So i went to the Party Manager to create a new >> Customer >> which needs both, a first and a last name. This seems to be wrong since >> most customers will be companies themselves. >> >> Ofbiz offers me to create one of the following of which i don't fully >> understand the differences: >> So in the following i will list the options and try to explain my >> understanding of it. Please correct me if i'm wrong. Please fill my gaps. >> >> - Create New Party Group >> => Only way to create a company. Can be billed so it looks OK to use >> it. >> >> - Create New Person >> => Just a person. Don't know what to use it for. >> >> - Create Customer >> => A Person which is a customer. Like a private account in an online >> shop. Has an account. >> >> - Create Prospect >> => Don't see much difference to Customer, Maybe a person in the process >> of becoming an employee? >> >> - Create Employee >> => Person which is probably linked directly to my company. >> >> From all of them i can create "party group" and "person". Customer, >> prospect and employee can't be created due to the lack of a product store. >> I hope AR and AP modules can bi used without a product store since it >> would >> make testing easier. >> >> What i'm trying is simply billing a customer and getting billed by >> someone. >> For this i would like to understand the differences between the choices >> above and if / where i can change those later. >> >> I understand that ofbiz uses models from the book "the data modeling >> resource book". I've found 3 volumes of that one and i'm not sure which >> one >> to buy. Could you point me to the right book and chapter/page where a can >> look this up? >> >> Regards, >> Adrian Stern >> >>
