[Erp5-users] Organisations and suborganisations

[Jean-Paul Smets]

Le vendredi 17 novembre 2006 22:03, Bartłomiej Górny, ERP5 Polska a écrit :
> 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?)

Yes. This is how it is intended to be.

> 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.

No. Not manageable.

> 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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