Forum OpenACS Development: Re: Comments on the new postal-address module (and kin)

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14: Re: Comments on the new postal-address module (and kin) (response to 1)
Posted by Jon Griffin on 05/29/03 09:11 PM
The constraint is not on persons it is on party and that is a whole different thing having nothing to do with a person. It could be any data (i.e. organization, group etc)

And parties is going to change in 5.0 anyway to normalize the tables correctly. (i.e. a party doesn't need an email). Part of this is to work with other methods of registration etc. See other threads for this discussion.

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18: Re: Comments on the new postal-address module (and kin) (response to 14)
Posted by Jade Rubick on 05/29/03 10:39 PM
Just to follow up on Jon's point here: the constraint he is talking about is not with persons. The organizations you enter into the system are entered as *parties*, which is a completely different thing.

By entering them as parties, you're using the standard OpenACS way of entering organizations like this, and other packages can take advantage of the organizations you've entered.

I haven't looked thoroughly into the parties data model, but I believe this is the best way to do things.