[jira] Commented: (OFBIZ-3480) party id cannot be specified through GUI while creating a Party (Person or Party Group)

["Eric Lofstad (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Eric Lofstad commented on OFBIZ-3480:
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I've been evaluating ofbiz, and also found this to be an issue.  So I'm very interested to hear any response.

Having a meaningful value for party_id would be very helpful especially since most forms only show party_id and not any name.  After entering information for a communication, order, etc, the forms only show a party of "11007" (for example).  There is no quick way to visually check you have the correct party unless you happen to have all the numbers memorized.

Also, some fields have auto-complete capability, but that is not a useful option for party_id fields if they are all numeric.

> party id cannot be specified through GUI while creating a Party (Person or Party Group)
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: OFBIZ-3480
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-3480
>             Project: OFBiz
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: party
>    Affects Versions: SVN trunk
>            Reporter: Babu Sreekanth
>            Priority: Minor
>
> 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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