Re: Dev - right way to set up party relationship

Posted by David E. Jones on
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Dev-right-way-to-set-up-party-relationship-tp166405p166411.html


On Dec 21, 2005, at 5:19 PM, Si Chen wrote:

> David,
>
> I don't think much code needs to be changed.  I think the current  
> code checks for a rollup of partyIdFrom to partyIdTo, and that's  
> all correct.  Only the edit party relationship page and the  
> descriptive name of "GROUP_ROLLUP" need  to be modified.

I'll just say this one more time: much more than this has to be  
changed. I've already listed a number of places and there are others  
that may need to be changed. Finding and assuring they are all  
changed is not easy and quite error-prone.

> The reason for doing is:
> 1.  To conform to the standard in the Data Model Resources Book

What exactly in the data model resource book implies this sort of order?

> 2.  I really think the other way is more intuitive.  GROUP_ROLLUP  
> can really go either way  in meaning, but CUSTOMER, AGENT, etc. has  
> strong implications.  At least I think it's more intuitive.  If you  
> disagree, then we're stuck at 50:50.  Maybe we should do a poll on  
> the list?  :)

Perhaps it is more intuitive, perhaps not. Of course, in things like  
this intuition might be somewhat dangerous. It hasn't been a problem  
in the past except for cases where the definition was not looked  
into. Even in the accounting extensions you setup the internal  
organization rollup demo data just fine...

-David
 
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