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Pierre Smits commented on OFBIZ-3480:
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I find this a rather fast track implementation. I am sure that the patch Taher
provided is delivering on the technical promise, but is the use case sufficient
to have it into to OFBiz? Are we certain there are no considerations we are
overlooking?
Scott already pointed out that there was a reason why users couldn't provide
their version of the party id in the creation screens. Having it for an initial
setup is a totally different use case, than providing it in end user
functionality for the general user group.
I regard the arguments provided by Eric back in 2010 as not enough to implement
the patch. If screens in other applications only present a party ID as the
'meaningfull info' about the party, the screens in those applications should be
improved....
> party id cannot be specified through GUI while creating a Party (Person or
> Party Group)
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>
> Key: OFBIZ-3480
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-3480
> Project: OFBiz
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: party
> Affects Versions: Trunk
> Reporter: Babu Sreekanth
> Assignee: Jacques Le Roux
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: Upcoming Branch
>
> Attachments: OFBIZ-3480.patch
>
>
> see the message in context:
> http://n4.nabble.com/Party-ID-during-creation-tt1554713.html#a1554713
> 1. While creating an organization, it is possible to specify a meaningful
> party id through ofbiz setup.
> 2. But, it is NOT possible to specify the party id through GUI while creating
> a Party (Person or Party Group). this means, all the parties created get a
> sequence id for party id.
> Bilgin Ibryam's replay is posted below.
> The PK field in party creation service is validated for special
> characters and so on. So the user is actually allowed to try with
> random text.
> I think this field is simply missing in the UI. That's why you are not
> "allowed" to enter the id.
> In addition to this, ofbiz display Ids in most of the forms ( and all
> the lookup fields). So it is very important to allow users to enter
> meaningful Ids, especially for data that it used for long period like
> partyId, facailityId, fixedAssetId, agreementId... So create forms
> should have an optional Id field (partyId, facilityId...) with a label
> saying that if an Id is not specified, the system will generate one.
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