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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:
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>> 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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