Re: Representing transport jobs in Ofbiz

2019-10-14 Thread Daniel Watford
Thanks Nicolas, I hadn't looked much at WorkEffort yet as I had thought it mainly related to manufacturing tasks. After your prompting I see it will likely help in estimating the various costs for a Job (vehicle, fuel, ferry crossings, tolls, etc) and I like the idea of building a service to conve

Re: Representing transport jobs in Ofbiz

2019-10-14 Thread Nicolas Malin
Hello Daniel, As you describe your jobs, I would tend to use WorkEffort entity with sub workEffort for each sub invoicing part. When your functional schema is operational, detect what element trigger the invoicing and peraphs create your own service to convert your workEffort to invoice Ni

Representing transport jobs in Ofbiz

2019-10-13 Thread Daniel Watford
Hello, A shipping company client of mine needs to replace their current operations management software. I would like to build a solution based on ofbiz, with a plugin designed to manage their operations. The company creates Jobs to represent orders/instructions from their customers. Each job can