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> Hi Rishi,
> thanks for your reply
>
> Rishi Solanki a écrit :
>> Hi Nicolas,
>> Currently only StatusItem and may 1 or 2 entities have this ability i.e sequenceNum as a field to reorder the types in the
>> drop-down. There is no way to reorder the types in the drop-down, we just arrange it by its id or description.
> When I configure a customer site, it's difficult to change id or description to reorder the types, but it's true for labellised
> type that it's not the description on the entity that is used. The sequenceNum it's the first easier step to reorder, but it's not
> the better way. On one site, you should have different order Type following the functional context. Another solution, is to add
> EntityTypeGroupAssoc (with attributes entityTypeGroupId, entityTypeId, description, comments, sequenceNum), that for a group, will
> give the Type list used to order, and other information that could be interesting for functional group parameter.
>
> Exemple for RoleType, it's a large entity, we can add RoleTypeGroup entity, to manage roleType following the functional context
>
> RoleTypeGroupAssoc OrderMgmt
> |-> OrderMgmt, BILL_TO_CUSTOMER, , ,10
> |-> OrderMgmt, SHIP_TO_CUSTOMER, , , 20
> |-> OrderMgmt, END_USER_CUSTOMER, , ,30
> |-> OrderMgmt, BILL_FROM_VENDOR, , ,40
> \-> OrderMgmt, SHIP_FROM_VENDOR, , ,50
>
> RoleTypeGroupAssoc SFA
> |-> SFA, END_USER_CUSTOMER, , ,10
> \-> SFA, LEARNER, , ,20
>
> This entity EntityTypeGroupAssoc, can be used on dropdown to filter and order type, but also for functional service.
> It's a complement of parentTypeId since parentTypeId create a main type hierarchy. Group create a multiple type hierarchy.
>
> Nicolas
>>
>> I personally think its interesting and nice idea to have this ability in all the EntityType, but not sure that to have the
>> reordering ability for types we should add the sequenceNum or sequenceId.
>>
>> Lets come some more thoughts on this.
>>
>> Rishi Solanki
>> Manager, Enterprise Software Development
>> HotWax Media Pvt. Ltd.
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>>
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>>
>> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Nicolas Malin <
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>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On a project I have reordered the drop-down type (CustRequestType,
>> CommEvenType, etc ...) depending on the client's functional
>> priorities. I caught sight it is difficult to do without an
>> inherited form.
>>
>> For easy customer setup, adding a sequenceNum field on all
>> EntityType will be interesting (with an generci entity-order on
>> sequenceNum)? Or Do you have a particular practice run for just
>> such cases
>>
>> Nicolas
>>
>>
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