I'm all for more demo data, but I'm not sure how much a I like
anything that appears to be real... and the main reason for that is
that it can be error-prone if people accidently load the data or
something.
-David
On Jan 28, 2008, at 10:53 AM, Adrian Crum wrote:
Thanks for the reply!
I'm picturing how the demo data can be built out so
that new users can have a better idea of how
components and processes interact.
Take the existing Demo Customer for example. Why can't
that person have a name? In addition to any existing
data, I could have them post forum messages about
items they purchased.
Demo employees in the HR component could have demo
data all over the place - member of a project team in
the project manager, moderator of in-house forums,
foreman of a manufacturing production run, etc.
Maybe this is a lofty goal, but I think it would be
helpful to have demo data that really looks like a
deployed OFBiz instance.
-Adrian
--- David E Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Better, and more business oriented, demo data for
the content stuff
would be really great.
Disclaimers are good, but another practice we've
been using is
"ridicularity", if you take my meaning. In other
words make the names
and such so silly (and entertaining, if you must)
that people will get
the idea. Using product names like widgets and
gizmos is pretty much
along this line. Some may not translate into foreign
languages as
much, but they get the idea pretty quickly anyway
(yeah, I've seen a
lot of questions from clients around the world and
sometimes in
English-speaking places too about what a widget is
and what a gizmo
is...).
-David
On Jan 28, 2008, at 9:57 AM, Adrian Crum wrote:
I'm working on building out the forum feature of
the
Content Manager component. I'm creating a more
comprehensive demo data set and I'd like to make
the
demo data more meaningful.
Is there any reason I can't make up names for
people
and businesses? We could have a disclaimer note in
the
demo data similar to movie disclaimers saying that
the
data is ficticious and any similarity to real
people/businesses is coincidental.
What do you think?
-Adrian
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