Re: Party - adding extra fields.

[Yong Lin <sh...@gmail.com>]

 There is a check-on-start attribute of datasource in entityengine.xml,only
the value is true , ofbiz restart check entity changed.

2006/8/31, Peter Dirickson <pe...@212interactive.com>:
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> Hi Ofibz users,
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> I'm new to Ofbiz and I want to add new fields for the Party - contact
> form.
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> Here is what I did, please any help.
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> I want to add extra fields to the contact us form, so I added into
> entitymodel.xml those two fields:
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> <field name="comments" type="comment"></field>
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> <field name="new_product " type="comment"></field>
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> Under entity-name="PartyContactMech"
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> And those fields were created ok after restarting.
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> Then I added into
> \apps\party\script\org\ofbiz\party\contact\PartyContactMechServices.xml
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> <call-map-processor
> xml-resource="org/ofbiz/party/contact/ContactMechMapProcs.xml"
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>                processor-name="contactMech" in-map-name="parameters"
> out-map-name="context3"/>
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> <string-to-field string="comments" field-name="comments"
> map-name="context3"/>
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> <string-to-field string="new_product" field-name="new_product"
> map-name="context3"/>
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> Under <simple-method method-name="createPartyContactMech"
> short-description="Create a PartyContactMech">
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> And also apps\party\script\org\ofbiz\party\contact\ContactMechMapProcs.xml
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> <simple-map-processor name="contactMech">
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>            <process field="comments"><copy/></process>
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>            <process field="new_product"><copy/></process>
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> But it's not saving into the DB the info typed into those 2 fields created
> in contact.ftl template.
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> Am I missing something? My big question is do I need to change/add
> something
> in the ContactMechService.java?
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> Thanks,
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> Peter.
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