I would recommend purchasing Volume 1 of The Data Model Resource book.
It will contain most of what you need (and it will answer your questions
here).
Volume 2 contains industry-specific data models, and it would be good to
have as well, but it is not essential.
Adrian Crum
Sandglass Software
www.sandglass-software.com
On 2/11/2014 4:48 AM, Adrian Stern wrote:
Hi
I'm playing around with the AP and AR module and for that i need to create
a Party (Customer). So i went to the Party Manager to create a new Customer
which needs both, a first and a last name. This seems to be wrong since
most customers will be companies themselves.
Ofbiz offers me to create one of the following of which i don't fully
understand the differences:
So in the following i will list the options and try to explain my
understanding of it. Please correct me if i'm wrong. Please fill my gaps.
- Create New Party Group
=> Only way to create a company. Can be billed so it looks OK to use it.
- Create New Person
=> Just a person. Don't know what to use it for.
- Create Customer
=> A Person which is a customer. Like a private account in an online
shop. Has an account.
- Create Prospect
=> Don't see much difference to Customer, Maybe a person in the process
of becoming an employee?
- Create Employee
=> Person which is probably linked directly to my company.
From all of them i can create "party group" and "person". Customer,
prospect and employee can't be created due to the lack of a product store.
I hope AR and AP modules can bi used without a product store since it would
make testing easier.
What i'm trying is simply billing a customer and getting billed by someone.
For this i would like to understand the differences between the choices
above and if / where i can change those later.
I understand that ofbiz uses models from the book "the data modeling
resource book". I've found 3 volumes of that one and i'm not sure which one
to buy. Could you point me to the right book and chapter/page where a can
look this up?
Regards,
Adrian Stern
