Re: Users - Entity fundamentals

Posted by Si Chen-2 on
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Users-Entity-fundamentals-tp136935p136940.html

It's pretty unanimous that you should get the book.

As to why it doesn't work...sorry not nearly enough information here for
me to figure it out.

Si

Charles Johnson wrote:

>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.
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>Let's imagine that WE didn't exist at all - can you take up the remarks
>in my last posting in that light?
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>CJ
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>Si Chen wrote:
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>>So...hold it right there.  Why are you making an Appointment entity when
>>there is the WorkEffort entity already?
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>>Charles Johnson wrote:
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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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>>>Si Chen wrote:
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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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>>>>Si
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>>>>Charles Johnson wrote:
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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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