Re: Users - Entity fundamentals

Posted by Charles Johnson-2 on
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Users-Entity-fundamentals-tp136935p136939.html

Ah OK. For one thing, I didn't know what WorkEffort meant. For another,
i'd need to support repeating appointments. I wonder if WorkEffort can
do that? I'm going to take a look at it now.

Let's imagine that WE didn't exist at all - can you take up the remarks
in my last posting in that light?

CJ

Si Chen wrote:

>So...hold it right there.  Why are you making an Appointment entity when
>there is the WorkEffort entity already?
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>>That's what i thought. I hope (assume) this can be done without altering
>>the Person entity definition in any way? If so, i've been having
>>difficulty doing so. I'm just trying to create a one-to-many relation
>>(unlike the many-to-many relation in the tutorial) between Person and my
>>entity Appointment respectively. I'm also assuming that this doesn't
>>need the same kind of joining entity as HelloPersonHobby ...
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>>CJ
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>>>You mean the OFBIZ Person entity?  Yes, it would.  The tutorial was to
>>>create a completely self-contained example, so that's why it didn't use
>>>the existing OFBIZ entities.  In reality, of course, you should try to
>>>do the exact opposite: reuse as many existing entities as possible.
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>>>I should make a note of this in the tutorial.  Thanks for pointing it out.
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>>>>In the tutorials we are shown examples of a Party/Person-like entity
>>>>(HelloPerson). Would it not be possible to join HelloHobby with Person?
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>>>>CJ
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