Use of externalId entity attribute

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Use of externalId entity attribute

John Martin
I've noticed that on several of the entities, OrderHeader and Party to
be more specific. I believe these are not used by ofBiz but are
provided to integrate with 3rd party systems.  Is my assumption
correct?

 I wanted to confirm this before using them for that purpose.  There
were no comments in the entity defs explaining their use.

Thanks,

John
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Re: Use of externalId entity attribute

David E Jones-2

Yes, that is usually the intent. In some businesses it may be  
necessary to have various IDs for other systems where the same data  
is represented. If that is the case a data model change would  
probably be needed/best.

-David


On Oct 17, 2006, at 10:15 PM, John Martin wrote:

> I've noticed that on several of the entities, OrderHeader and Party to
> be more specific. I believe these are not used by ofBiz but are
> provided to integrate with 3rd party systems.  Is my assumption
> correct?
>
> I wanted to confirm this before using them for that purpose.  There
> were no comments in the entity defs explaining their use.
>
> Thanks,
>
> John