Hi Craig, This would be a good time to buy "The Data Model Resource Book" by Len Silverston. OFBiz data model is heavily based on that book (volume one) and I should say it is an excellent read even if you don't use OFBiz.
With that being said I'll take a shot at answering some of your questions inline... On Apr 27, 2017 5:24 AM, "Craig Parker" <[email protected]> wrote: I'm trying to nail down what some of these names are, and not having much luck with some of it. If there's a glossary anywhere that I haven't seen yet, can someone point me in the direction? Organization = The over-arching business? The company that owns all the manufacturing, distribution, and sales? An organization is just a party. However there is a special party role called INTERNAL_ORGANIZATIO (yes missing N) which denotes the main business being served by the system. The main entities to look at are "Party", "PartyRole", "RoleType" If you've got a manufacturing plant, a retail store, a website (for online sales) and a hot dog stand, I was initially thinking these were all Facilities while noodling through some old docs. But I'm not so sure after looking at sample data and the menu options. Parties are any employees or customers. Vendors too? I've got more, but will stew on these for the moment. I'm actually trying to concoct a small "story" that even my kids will understand. Other folks may be in same the boat as me where they understand a whole process, but the names we're using in OFBiz mean something else in whatever ERP they're coming from. The one I use has separate AP and AR terms (terms as in "pay by the 10th, get 10% off your bill" or "pay after the 15th and get a 2% finance charge"), but in OFBiz it looks like everything is lumped into something called Agreements, and you can have a vendor or a customer using the same (I call it terms) agreement. I'm guessing there are a ton of these kinds of things. I see them spelled out to some degree in the "official" docs I've got (from 2006-ish) but it isn't really spelled out enough for me at least to understand.
