Yeah, I think we've been over this before. You're still forgetting that the *Type entities in OFBiz have NOTHING to do with anywhere the term "type" is used in the Data Model Resource Book.
Stepping back and allowing that this may not be the case, how would you imagine this model would look? Are you talking about PartyClassification being a join entity between Party and PartyType? What about the Party.partyTypeId field? -David On Mar 29, 2011, at 11:01 AM, Adrian Crum wrote: > A PartyClassification ties a Party to a PartyType and it includes from and > thru dates (Figure 2.3 and Table 2.3). > > If you want to group classifications, then you group PartyType, not > PartyClassification. > > -Adrian > > On 3/29/2011 9:48 AM, David E Jones wrote: >> Could you be more specific? >> >> -David >> >> >> On Mar 29, 2011, at 10:24 AM, Adrian Crum wrote: >> >>> Why can't we use the pattern in the Data Model Resource book? It's simple >>> and it works. >>> >>> -Adrian >>> >>> >>> On 3/26/2011 9:57 AM, David E Jones wrote: >>>> On Mar 22, 2011, at 6:27 AM, Jacopo Cappellato wrote: >>>>> - redesign following a more standard approach >>>>> PartyClassificationGroup/PartyClassificationType/PartyClassification >>>> Yes, this is another good one. This the pattern I had in mind: >>>> >>>> <entity entity-name="PartyClassification" >>>> package-name="mantle.party.party"> >>>> <field name="partyClassificationId" type="id" is-pk="true"/> >>>> <field name="classificationTypeEnumId" type="id"/> >>>> <field name="parentClassificationId" type="id"/> >>>> <field name="description" type="text-long"/> >>>> <relationship type="one" title="PartyClassificationType" >>>> related-entity-name="Enumeration"> >>>> <key-map field-name="classificationTypeEnumId"/> >>>> </relationship> >>>> <relationship type="one" title="Parent" >>>> related-entity-name="PartyClassification"> >>>> <key-map field-name="parentClassificationId"/> >>>> </relationship> >>>> </entity> >>>> <entity entity-name="PartyClassificationAppl" >>>> package-name="mantle.party.party"> >>>> <field name="partyId" type="id" is-pk="true"/> >>>> <field name="partyClassificationId" type="id" is-pk="true"/> >>>> <field name="fromDate" type="date-time" is-pk="true"/> >>>> <field name="thruDate" type="date-time"/> >>>> <relationship type="one" related-entity-name="Party"/> >>>> <relationship type="one" >>>> related-entity-name="PartyClassification"/> >>>> </entity> >>>>
