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familiar with the ER yet. The reason i made it is that a Person can only
David E. Jones wrote:
>Why Person? This would imply that the timezone doesn't apply to other types of parties, for example the party group type. Is that what is intended? If so, why?
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> >From: "Charles Johnson"<
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> >Sent: 1/22/06 4:29:45 AM
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> >Subject: Re: [OFBiz] Users - Party and Timezones
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> >What about joining Person to timezone?
> >
> >CJ
> >
> >David E. Jones wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> No, I think Party would actually be better than UserLogin. From a
> >> modeling perspective and considering the intent of the different
> >> entities UserLogin doesn't make much sense, unless I really mis-
> >> understand what you intend to use this for and what it would mean.
> >> The UserLogin entity is part of the security data model and the only
> >> reasons a Party would have multiple UserLogin records would be for
> >> different permission sets or to change the UserLogin but still
> >> reserve the old one for tracking/auditing purposes and such.
> >>
> >> -David
> >>
> >>
> >> On Jan 21, 2006, at 6:09 PM, Vinay Agarwal wrote:
> >>
> >>> On second thought, it may be better to associate timezone with a
> >>> UserLogin
> >>> considering a party may have users in different locations. This of
> >>> course,
> >>> assumes that a single login is used by a single user who would have a
> >>> preferred timezone. Would this be better than assigning it to a party?
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>> Vinay Agarwal
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> >>> On Behalf Of David E. Jones
> >>> Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 7:11 PM
> >>> To: OFBiz Users / Usage Discussion
> >>> Subject: Re: [OFBiz] Users - Party and Timezones
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> This is a tricky one since it may be correct to say that a given
> >>> Party corresponds to a single time zone. On the other hand, I guess
> >>> it depends on what you want to do with it... it may be that having
> >>> more than one time zone would mess up what you are trying to do. In
> >>> general the time zone probably goes along best with the Postal
> >>> Address, or perhaps even the Telecom Number. If you need a single
> >>> field, or call it a "preferredTimeZone" or something along those
> >>> lines to make it clear that it isn't supposed to be the only one,
> >>> then putting it right on the Party entity is not a bad way to go.
> >>>
> >>> -David
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Jan 20, 2006, at 1:44 PM, Vinay Agarwal wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Hello,
> >>>>
> >>>> My application needs timezone setting for each party. I haven't
> >>>> been able to
> >>>> find any timezone setting for the party--is there one? If not,
> >>>> what's the
> >>>> preferred way for adding it? I assume modifying the party entity is
> >>>> NOT the
> >>>> preferred way. Any suggestions?
> >>>>
> >>>> Regards,
> >>>> Vinay Agarwal
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