From: Jake S. <ns...@us...> - 2004-09-21 12:18:13
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oh right, but they are not all stored with in a single table? EGS concept of branches are slightly different, there are complete company entities in themselves, but are attached to parent companies in a tree structure. Jake Phil Daintree wrote: > Almost - there is one billing address - but there can be any number of > branch delivery addresses. > > The same is mirrored with suppliers one head office/admin but many > contacts. > > On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 21:33, Jake Stride wrote: > >>I have been looking through the weberp database this morning and one of >>the main differences that I have come across between weberp and EGS is >>the representation of contact details (ie address/phone/fax/email/etc). >> >>In weberp am I right in saying that a company has one address, whereas >>in EGS a company can have as many 'contacts' as you like since they are >>stored in a different table. Along with each 'contact' the type of >>'contact' can be set, so for example, when you add a company with an >>address, the address is automatically set as the default for >>billing/shipping/payment/technical/main, then when you add more >>addresses you can change which is assigned for each, so a company can >>easily have a different address for billling and shipping, and this can >>be pulled from the DB without the user having to select it for the company. >> >>What are peoples opinions on this method of address/contact handling? >> >>Thanks >> >>Jake >> >> >>------------------------------------------------------- >>This SF.Net email is sponsored by: YOU BE THE JUDGE. Be one of 170 >>Project Admins to receive an Apple iPod Mini FREE for your judgement on >>who ports your project to Linux PPC the best. Sponsored by IBM. >>Deadline: Sept. 24. Go here: http://sf.net/ppc_contest.php >>_______________________________________________ >>Web-erp-developers mailing list >>Web...@li... >>https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/web-erp-developers >> > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: YOU BE THE JUDGE. Be one of 170 > Project Admins to receive an Apple iPod Mini FREE for your judgement on > who ports your project to Linux PPC the best. Sponsored by IBM. > Deadline: Sept. 24. Go here: http://sf.net/ppc_contest.php > _______________________________________________ > Web-erp-developers mailing list > Web...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/web-erp-developers |