EntityTypeGroupAssoc is an interesting idea Nicolas.
Other opinions?
Jacques
From: "Nicolas Malin" <[email protected]>
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
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On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Nicolas Malin <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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
