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Re: Creating POs/Salesorders directly...



Jason Rodrigues wrote:
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 10:36, Charley Tiggs wrote:
Hello,
Have I left anything out?  I don't have multiple warehouses so the
inventory table doesn't seem to come into play.  Shipping/receiving is
not involved at this point, either.

Genrally, you should avoid directly inserting/updating putting stuff right into the database. When you turn on the statement logging, you can get a pretty complete picture of what's going on, but it's not really the 'best' way right. We will be adding stored procedures to do many of the manipulations you describe, right in the db layer. Once that's togeather and working, You can connect directly to the database and use those SP's to manipulate the data.

For now, I'd use the Chris' CLI tool in svn, (trunk/utils/cli) or the web api, where you just GET/POST urls to oe.pl. (I can get you an example later, don't have one handy right now)

If you insert/update directly into the database, you'll have to carefully watch schema changes when you upgrade to ensure you continue to set the correct data. If you don't, you may find that one day you'll have a bunch of inconsistent data in your database. :(

Also, in the next month or two, a REST API is coming, where you should be able to simply POST XML Sales order documents.

Jason,

Thanks for the response.  But several things are putting me on this path:

1) I'm not all that savvy with Perl, though I'm learning lots while working with LSMB; 2) I don't always understand how the code works within LSMB but I'm slowly learning; 3) Because of 1 and 2, I sometimes spend up to 6 hours determining whether it's user error (me) or a bug within LSMB.

At least, in reverting to using tools I know best (PHP, Postgres) for the short term, I can at least program these pieces in such a way that I can revert to using the "right way" when I finally figure out why using the web api doesn't work for me in certain instances (I spent 4 hours plugging at this last night without success and I still don't know if it's a bug or user error.) or until v1.2 becomes stable.

Charley