Load California Sales Tax Rates

[Steve Fatula]

There are around 2,000 entities, what is the best way to load/update  
these? Is there a good process to update them from a file of some  
sort? Anyone know where such a file is?

Have not had any luck looking for the data.

Steve

[BJ Freeman]

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here is a good place to check
http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBIZ/FAQ+-+Tips+-+Tricks+-+Cookbook+-+HowTo
you can also search for articles.
this is one I am working on
http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBIZ/Handling+of+External+data
you should be familar with the
http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBTECH/OFBiz%27s+Tax+Authority+Data+Model

Steve sent the following on 4/1/2009 11:15 AM:
> There are around 2,000 entities, what is the best way to load/update
> these? Is there a good process to update them from a file of some sort?
> Anyone know where such a file is?
>
> Have not had any luck looking for the data.
>
> Steve
>
>
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[Steve Fatula]

What I would most like to understand is how an order even gets sales tax on it. A customer places an order, what associates the customer with a sales tax region, authority, whatever?

In California, that is by zip code or city. So, when a customer is placing an order, what tells ofBiz to look something up, and, where does it look it up? I do not see that doc anywhere.

Sure, I can see that there are some tables for taxes, and, I can see there are tax authority geo codes (ids). So, what associates a customer to a given tax_authority_geo_id, i.e., how does ofbiz determine that customer has that geo id? It has to look something up somewhere, based on something. And where is that something defined? Or, is it just build in, still, if so, I'd like to understand how that association happens.

[BJ Freeman]

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you best reference is to start with the Data modeling book reference on
the ofbiz site
next would recommend working you way  thru
http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBADMIN/Apache+OFBiz+Getting+Started


neobits sent the following on 4/1/2009 1:04 PM:

> What I would most like to understand is how an order even gets sales tax on
> it. A customer places an order, what associates the customer with a sales
> tax region, authority, whatever?
>
> In California, that is by zip code or city. So, when a customer is placing
> an order, what tells ofBiz to look something up, and, where does it look it
> up? I do not see that doc anywhere.
>
> Sure, I can see that there are some tables for taxes, and, I can see there
> are tax authority geo codes (ids). So, what associates a customer to a given
> tax_authority_geo_id, i.e., how does ofbiz determine that customer has that
> geo id? It has to look something up somewhere, based on something. And where
> is that something defined? Or, is it just build in, still, if so, I'd like
> to understand how that association happens.

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[BJ Freeman]

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another source is to use the artifacts in the webtools
https://demo.ofbiz.org/webtools/control/ArtifactInfo
type in Tax


neobits sent the following on 4/1/2009 1:04 PM:

> What I would most like to understand is how an order even gets sales tax on
> it. A customer places an order, what associates the customer with a sales
> tax region, authority, whatever?
>
> In California, that is by zip code or city. So, when a customer is placing
> an order, what tells ofBiz to look something up, and, where does it look it
> up? I do not see that doc anywhere.
>
> Sure, I can see that there are some tables for taxes, and, I can see there
> are tax authority geo codes (ids). So, what associates a customer to a given
> tax_authority_geo_id, i.e., how does ofbiz determine that customer has that
> geo id? It has to look something up somewhere, based on something. And where
> is that something defined? Or, is it just build in, still, if so, I'd like
> to understand how that association happens.

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