[Erp5-users] Organisations and suborganisations

["Bartłomiej Górny, ERP5 Polska"]

Tomasz Brzezina wrote:
> Jean-Paul Smets napisał(a):
>> The solution is to use the "group" category to represnet the structure 
>> of organisations and suborganisations and to create "Organisation" 
>> instances which are attached to the propper point.
>>
>> This approach greatly simplifies reporting and data maintenance  (ex. 
>> an organisation is changed in the hierarchy position).
> Maybe yes, but i think it seriously increase the group selector (i don't 
> know if I can reduce it depending on exact Organisation - I can't 
> imagine if division of firm A can have Group property = part of Firm B). 

I'd do one of the two things:

a) Create a group for each organisation, assign this organisation and 
all of its suborganisation to the same group, and distinguish 
organisation from a suborganisation by another property ("role", perhaps?)

b) Establish a category-based relation between organisation and 
suborganisation - maybe a new base category (like "parent"), maybe one 
of existing categories within the ERP5 data model will do - "aggregate", 
for example.

Jean-Paul, what do you think?

Bartek

 > Now I add succesfully "suborganisation" (there are little problems with
> Default Phones etc), but it works. I hope it will works later ;D
> 
> In each step I like ERP5 more ;D
> 


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