Posted by
David E. Jones on
Jan 22, 2006; 6:02pm
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Users-Party-and-Timezones-tp137002p137008.html
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?
-David
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>From: "Charles Johnson"<
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>Subject: Re: [OFBiz] Users - Party and Timezones
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>What about joining Person to timezone?
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>CJ
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>David E. Jones wrote:
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>>
>> 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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>>> Subject: Re: [OFBiz] Users - Party and Timezones
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>>>
>>> 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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