I am thinking that the contactList stuff should be moved from Marketing to
Party.
The only link to the marketing application seems to be the
<field name="marketingCampaignId" type="id"></field>
and
<relation type="one" fk-name="CNCT_LST_MKCMPN"
rel-entity-name="MarketingCampaign">
<key-map field-name="marketingCampaignId"/>
</relation>
in the ContactList entity.
It should be possible to use contact lists without the marketing
application, don't you think so?
Thank you,
Bruno
2010/3/19 Bruno Busco <bruno.bu...@gmail.com>
> Thank you Ruth,
> never mind.
>
> -Bruno
>
> 2010/3/19 Ruth Hoffman <rhoff...@aesolves.com>
>
> Hi Bruno:
>> I'd be happy to share everything I've done so far:
>>
>> I wrote my own UI that unifies all my business applications such as
>> this. (I have a really hard time going back and forth between all
>> the many OFBiz webapps.)
>>
>> My UI coding standards are not of the OFBiz "way". I don't use any
>> of the widgets except for the Screen Widget. All of my web pages are
>> based on Freemarker templates. I've removed lots of the CSS "DIVs"
>> in favor of an easier to follow markup. I also have my own external
>> CSS files.
>>
>> My Java Service coding standards are not of the OFBiz "way". I don't
>> use simple-methods (for reasons I've already stated). I use Java.
>> (Since I just discovered I can use Groovy to write Services, I'm
>> going to start experimenting with that...but so far, I use Java
>> exclusively) so I am assuming that most of my work would be throw
>> away as far as the project is concerned.
>>
>> I wrote a number of Services to:
>>
>> Allow website visitor's to subscribe to my mailing lists without
>> having to register.
>> Add/remove list subscribers given only an email address.
>> For testing: add/remove ContactLists(and all the related Entities).
>> Add/Remove a list of contactMech "infoStrings" to a ContactList.
>> Initiate a mailing list event. (I did this one because I was
>> getting too much log file output with all the HTML validity checks
>> that one of the updated sendMail SECAs does. So, I had to disable
>> the SECA and do my own sendMail/commEvent updates.)
>>
>> I don't think any of this work is a worth sharing. There isn't anything
>> here that even comes close to the project's standards or "way" of doing
>> things.
>>
>> However, if you or anyone else out there would be interested in more
>> specifics, I'll put together a more detailed document, similar to the one I
>> wrote for adding RSS support. [You can find that on the MyOFBiz.com website
>> http://www.myofbiz.com/control/cms01?article=10000 . There is also a more
>> detailed article w/Entity information etc. included as part of the e-book
>> subscriber's members only site.]
>>
>> If there is a demand for something like that, then I will consider writing
>> it.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ruth
>>
>>
>>
>> Bruno Busco wrote:
>>
>>> Thank you All for your suggestions.
>>>
>>> Ruth,
>>> what you describes is the closest to what I had in mind to build.
>>> Is there any way to share the code?
>>>
>>> In any case I think I will submit the code I will write for this since it
>>> seems an enough general feature.
>>>
>>> -Bruno
>>>
>>>
>>> 2010/3/18 Ruth Hoffman <rhoff...@aesolves.com>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi Bruno:
>>>> Here's what I do:
>>>>
>>>> I wrote my own UI and use the existing contact list services to create
>>>> and
>>>> manage multiple mailing lists (these are contact lists) including adding
>>>> and
>>>> removing users. In addition I wrote some of my own services to handle
>>>> the
>>>> initiation of a mailing to the contact list. Once you have the contact
>>>> list(s) set up, it's pretty easy to associate a mailing with them. I'm
>>>> getting ready to create a few services to mail reports to me (and
>>>> certain
>>>> list recipients) automatically. I don't think that would be much
>>>> different
>>>> than your requirement to mail to a contact list based on some triggering
>>>> event.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Ruth
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Jacques Le Roux wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Bruno,
>>>>>
>>>>> Like you I think that OOTB a contact list seems appropriate
>>>>> ESME could be used also, maybe in conjunction with contact list
>>>>> http://blog.esme.us/integration-with-apache-ofbiz/
>>>>> There is also the mechanism Hand used to show a message in the header.
>>>>> But
>>>>> I'm not sure it can be used for brodcasting?
>>>>> You could also use Classifications to group people
>>>>>
>>>>> Jacques
>>>>>
>>>>> From: "Bruno Busco" <bruno.bu...@gmail.com>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>> I am going to implement a notification mechanism and I would like to
>>>>>> konw
>>>>>> what is the best way to do it in OFBiz.
>>>>>> What I need is a way to select for each one of several "events" that
>>>>>> can
>>>>>> happen in the system, a set of users that will receive a notification
>>>>>> of
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> event.
>>>>>> An event could be an error condition detected in a service or simply a
>>>>>> service execution itself.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I would like to have a screen where the admin could add users to the
>>>>>> groups
>>>>>> so that they will be notified of the events.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> How to implement this in OFBiz?
>>>>>> Is it already a feature like this?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I was thinking to use the contact list for this.
>>>>>> There is already a way to send a communication to a contact list so
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> event should create a communication to the related contact list and
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> admin could include in the contact list all users he want to notify of
>>>>>> that
>>>>>> particular event.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If this is the right solution I would like to have the contact list
>>>>>> moved
>>>>>> from the marketing component to the framework.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Does this make sense ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thank you,
>>>>>> Bruno
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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