Re: EDit Hooks into order entry, Tracking and AR invoices.

Posted by cjhowe on Jul 09, 2006; 5:20am
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/EDit-Hooks-into-order-entry-Tracking-and-AR-invoices-tp169538p169541.html

Because there is a step to prepare, you may want to
evaluate whether it's better to enter the incoming
order directly as an order or if you would be better
entering it as a shopping list and letting the reorder
service turn that into an order

--- BJ Freeman <[hidden email]> wrote:

> That is why I suggested a Map to call the parser.
> the parser would then fill the map and return it.
> so if you used a third party parser you would have
> to change it to load
> the map and return it.  I did this with the OpenAS2.
>
> The discussion is more about once the map is return
> how the service will
> integrate the data into ofbiz.
>
> as an example you take the basic service for Order
> entry and make a new
> service that uses the map returned by parser to
> enter the order.
>
>
>
>
> Chris Howe sent the following on 7/8/2006 8:56 PM:
> > There are quite a bit of tools out there under
> various
> > open source licenses that will do must of parsing.
>
> > All we need to do is decide on a format that the
> > document needs to be for OFBiz to load it and
> write
> > the service to import that document.
> >
> >
>

http://www.manageability.org/blog/stuff/open-source-etl/view

> >
> > --- BJ Freeman <[hidden email]> wrote:
> >
> >> I would like to propose new frame/application
> >> services that support
> >> external Order entry, Tracking input and AR
> >> invoices.
> >> each would have a map that is passed to a custom
> >> parser for the EDI
> >> format to be parsed then process the returned
> map,
> >> as if it was done
> >> thru the ofbiz UI.
> >>
> >> This leave only the custom parser to be developed
> by
> >> the person interested.
> >>
> >> any thoughts.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>