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select * from enumeration where enum_type_id = 'TEST' order by enum_id asc result is http://www.nabble.com/file/p11947980/enum2.jpg Adrian Crum wrote: > > The enumeration IDs in my example can't be sorted? > > You could always go back to your original schema and have separate table > for each type. > > > MrJohnBrown wrote: > >> The problem is that these enum_ids in my case are used as the values in >> product table fields. And there is running "Order By" on them. So they >> are >> ordered from Low to High sets, in other words have grading. That is why >> in >> my old system I used the numeric 1,2,3..etc sequence. And then it was >> very >> easy to get sortable lists of products by those fields. In my old system >> I >> have each enumeration in its own table, so that was not a poblem with >> primary key. But in ofbiz it is the one table of all the enumerations >> that >> is why the problem has arised. >> >> >> Adrian Crum wrote: >> >>>I have used unique IDs that have some kind of semantic meaning. For >>>example: >>> >>>enum_id enum_desc >>>----------- --------- >>>MATL_TYPE_1 Brick >>>MATL_TYPE_2 Paper >>>MATL_TYPE_3 Sand >>> >>>METAL_TYPE_1 Gold >>>METAL_TYPE_2 Platinum >>>METAL_TYPE_3 Silver >>> >>>-Adrian >>> >>> >>>MrJohnBrown wrote: >>> >>>>Hi Guys, >>>> >>>>I have a number of the enumerations sets of different types but the >>>>problem >>>>is that they have same ids. Example: >>>> >>>> >>>>http://www.nabble.com/file/p11946308/enum.jpg >>>> >>>>But in the ofbiz enumeration entity enum_id is the only primary key, so I >>>>am >>>>not able to load those sets as is. Will it no be a problem with ofbiz >>>>dependant stuff if I change the primary key of Enumeration entity to be a >>>>composite key which will include two fields (enum_id, enum_type_id) ? >>>>Please, let me know if it can cause any problems to the legacy data >>>>model? >>>> >>>>Thanks for any replies. >>> >>> >> > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Enumeration-entity-Primary-Key-tf4200307.html#a11947980 Sent from the OFBiz - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
