On Thursday, January 16, 2014 8:00 PM,
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> I finally got the second delegator to work. The external db delegator
> throws errors initially because it cannot find OFBiz tables but works as
> needed the warnings are thrown. Most of the instructions to get to this
> point was provided in
>
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Handling+of+External+data> but it doesn't include anything about renaming readers and loaders which
> seems necessary in order for start not to fail.
>
> I think more documentation is needed on the subject of the creation and
> use of new delegators.
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Jacques
> On 01/16/2014 12:18 PM, Christian Carlow wrote:
>> I plan on using mini-lang simple-methods to implement the import
>> scripts and noticed that the <entity-condition> tag has a
>> delegator-name attribute. I'm not sure if this means it is required to
>> create a separate delegator when connecting to external dbs with
>> entities names matching those of OFBiz. I'll probably trying creating
>> a separate delegator again to handle the external db.
>>
>> On 01/16/2014 11:53 AM, Christian Carlow wrote:
>>> Seems like the relevant information to resolve this issue has been
>>> removed from
>>>
https://cwiki.apache.org/OFBIZ/ofbiz-tutorial-a-beginners-development-guide.html.
>>>
>>> On 01/16/2014 10:53 AM, Christian Carlow wrote:
>>>> I'm working on importing data into OFBiz and have encountered a
>>>> stoppage issue related to external db entity names matching those of
>>>> OFBiz. I added a <group-name> element to the default delegator in
>>>> entityengine.xml because I gave up trying to create a separate
>>>> delegator for the external entity described in
>>>>
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Handling+of+External+data.
>>>> I suppose if a separate delegator existed to handle the external db
>>>> then there wouldn't be a conflict.
>>>>
>>>> The documentation instructs to refer to
>>>>
https://cwiki.apache.org/OFBIZ/ofbiz-tutorial-a-beginners-development-guide.html>>>> on how to clean up entities that match the current DB but I can't
>>>> find anything in that doc that mentioned cleanup.
>>>>
>>>> Can someone advise how these cases are typically handled?
>>>
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