Hi Tim, In my time with OFBiz, I have discovered that if something seems to be missing, it's probably slightly more complicated than I imagined, rather than being absent altogether.
In Add Product Supplier, there is a pick list, but it's looking for parties that have a role of SUPPLIER - https://github.com/apache/ofbiz/blob/trunk/applications/product/widget/catalog/ProductForms.xml#L891 OTH_ea is the ID for a measure, an internal thing. "Other" is a measure category to separate measures for undimensional numbers from weight, time and so on. There is an abbreviation attribute of plain "ea", just as you want - https://github.com/apache/ofbiz/blob/trunk/framework/common/data/UnitData.xml#L322 The demo OFBiz application is intended to show off the capabilities of the OFBiz framework, and will almost certainly be customised for a serious use. If the ea is important for you, you can pretty up presentation of measures for your own work. There are numerous places in the demo where I would welcome enhancements like this. I still work with OFBiz because the underlying framework is well-designed and has very broad capabilities. As an OFBiz contributor, I am more interested in improving the framework and less the demo application, and I suspect I'm not alone in this. So the demo may be somewhat messy and incomplete. Cheers Paul Foxworthy On 24 December 2017 at 07:55, Boyden, Timothy <tboy...@electroswitch.com> wrote: > Having all kinds of fun with Release 16.11.03 today... > > I am following the Getting Started with Apache OFBiz Manufacturing and MRP > book, to add products and suppliers. > > Went to add a supplier for my product, and the Add Product Supplier screen > doesn't provide you with any way to specify or select an existing Supplier > ID. > > Had to use the Entity Data Maintenance tool to create a new > SupplierProduct record, and look up the ID keys for various fields from SQL. > > Just for the record, EA is an ISO standard. Why the keys don't use the ISO > abbreviations for the key ID, is baffling to me. Having to type OTH_ea is > stupid. > > I am guessing we're not using test driven development for this project? A > lot of broken functionality in this release. > > Thanks, > > Tim > -- Coherent Software Australia Pty Ltd PO Box 2773 Cheltenham Vic 3192 Australia Phone: +61 3 9585 6788 Web: http://www.coherentsoftware.com.au/ Email: i...@coherentsoftware.com.au
