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Adrian Crum
Sandglass Software
www.sandglass-software.com
On 2/13/2014 4:25 AM, Adrian Stern wrote:
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?
Yes. OFBiz applications will require users to have certain roles for
them to work. There is very little documentation on that kind of
application detail, so it will be mostly trial-and-error.
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?
See my previous answer.
=> The book states they will inherit the ID of their super type. Does this
mean adding BILL_TO_CUSTOMER will automatically make them CUSTOMER?
It depends on the application. In a perfect world, entity subtypes would
always be enforced, but some areas of the project don't bother to check
supertypes.
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?
It depends on what you are modeling. Don't worry too much about
relationship type, it is an optional field and it basically duplicates
(or confuses) the two party roles that are already specified. Some
applications might require the relationship type though, so again it is
trial-and-error.
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?
I don't understand the question. It appears you are confusing users and
parties. They are not the same thing. A party might not be a user, and a
user might not be associated to a party.
The USER LOGIN entity controls access to the applications and provides
some information to the applications about the user. See Fig 9.3 in Vol 2.
A USER LOGIN might be related to a PARTY, but that relationship is optional.
Customer, Prospect and Employee are party roles, they have nothing to do
with a user login. Some applications will control access to certain
things based on a party role related to the party that is related to the
user login.
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
