[Vtigercrm-developers] organization ident

[Joe Bordes]

Very good idea!!

Joe
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Jens Hamisch escribió:
> Hi,
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> or opportunity 
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> c)  handle organization and orgunit as yet another CRMEntities
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> would be the best fit into the internal vtiger design for my
> point of view.
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> The effort would be even more than just introducing an orgid
> (code-changes and cleanups), but from the maintainability point
> of view it would be a clear and straight forward solution.
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> Jens
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> On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 04:23:28PM +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
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>> Hi folks,
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>> I've found an big-fat problem with the organization modeling in 
>> the DB:
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>> The org is always referenced by its name !
>> To be clear: its the *printable* name, which appears for example
>> on the bill.
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>> So now it's clear, why it cannot be changed in the settings ;-O
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>> It appears the name is also abused as ident, which is the key
>> problem. There's no additional ID here.
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>> To fix this, we have two options: 
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>> a) Add an numerical ID to the organization table and fix all the
>>    schema to reference on that. This would probably be the most
>>    clean model, but requires much care on schema updates.
>>    
>> b) Add an new text field (ie. "official_name") which now carries
>>    the actual *name* (ie. for printing on the invoice) and leave
>>    evrything else untouched. Nearly trivial to implement, but maybe
>>    not very clean design.
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>> Comments ?
>>
>> cu
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