Seeing how the Product Supplier works now, was this how Facilities were supposed to work? If so, it looks like Facility should be added to the Add to Role selection, with Facility Group as the Parent Type Id (which also needs to be added to that selection).
-Tim -----Original Message----- From: Paul Foxworthy [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2017 8:01 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Add Product Supplier broken - similar to Edit Facility bug Hi Tim, In my time with OFBiz, I have discovered that if something seems to be missing, it's probably slightly more complicated than I imagined, rather than being absent altogether. In Add Product Supplier, there is a pick list, but it's looking for parties that have a role of SUPPLIER - https://github.com/apache/ofbiz/blob/trunk/applications/product/widget/catalog/ProductForms.xml#L891 OTH_ea is the ID for a measure, an internal thing. "Other" is a measure category to separate measures for undimensional numbers from weight, time and so on. There is an abbreviation attribute of plain "ea", just as you want - https://github.com/apache/ofbiz/blob/trunk/framework/common/data/UnitData.xml#L322 The demo OFBiz application is intended to show off the capabilities of the OFBiz framework, and will almost certainly be customised for a serious use. If the ea is important for you, you can pretty up presentation of measures for your own work. There are numerous places in the demo where I would welcome enhancements like this. I still work with OFBiz because the underlying framework is well-designed and has very broad capabilities. As an OFBiz contributor, I am more interested in improving the framework and less the demo application, and I suspect I'm not alone in this. So the demo may be somewhat messy and incomplete. Cheers Paul Foxworthy On 24 December 2017 at 07:55, Boyden, Timothy <[email protected]> wrote: > Having all kinds of fun with Release 16.11.03 today... > > I am following the Getting Started with Apache OFBiz Manufacturing and > MRP book, to add products and suppliers. > > Went to add a supplier for my product, and the Add Product Supplier > screen doesn't provide you with any way to specify or select an > existing Supplier ID. > > Had to use the Entity Data Maintenance tool to create a new > SupplierProduct record, and look up the ID keys for various fields from SQL. > > Just for the record, EA is an ISO standard. Why the keys don't use the > ISO abbreviations for the key ID, is baffling to me. Having to type > OTH_ea is stupid. > > I am guessing we're not using test driven development for this > project? A lot of broken functionality in this release. > > Thanks, > > Tim > -- Coherent Software Australia Pty Ltd PO Box 2773 Cheltenham Vic 3192 Australia Phone: +61 3 9585 6788 Web: http://www.coherentsoftware.com.au/ Email: [email protected]
