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From: Jacques Le Roux <jacques.le.roux@les7arts.com>
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Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2017 20:10:00 +0100
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I guess Nicolas refers to the Extensibility Pattern 
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/General+Entity+Overview#GeneralEntityOverview-ExtensibilityPattern

Examples in the existing data model are a good way to understand this pattern...

HTH

Jacques


Le 08/02/2017  17:37, Nicolas Malin a crit :
>
> On most Entity you have a linked EntityAttr to manage specific data. Feel free to use it to record any value.
>
> After you can use as you wish on your screen or service
>
> Nicolas
>
>
> Le 08/02/2017  17:10, Ahmad Rababah a crit :
>>
>> Hi Nic,
>>
>> Thank you for the details.
>>
>> What I have is based on a business requirement that was received by the customer. The requirement is to allow the customer to add a dummy field 
>> (informative) that will allow the user to add a piece of data related to a certain entity.
>>
>> I know that Ofbiz is stronger than us so we are studying the available options to implement this.
>>
>> Do you have any possible workaround to have this implemented without altering the way ofbiz works.
>>
>>
>> *From:*Nicolas Malin [mailto:nicolas.malin@nereide.fr]
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 8, 2017 10:45
>> *To:* user@ofbiz.apache.org; Ahmad Rababah <aRababah@bi-bst.com>
>> *Subject:* Re: Dynamic field
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Like Jacques said, this ask found a better place on user mailing list, so I redirect it.
>>
>> Adding dynamically a field to an entity haven't real logical. OFBiz is an automation system and to do that with performance, it need to load, 
>> control, optimize the data model and integrate it with all other components.
>>
>> Generally we want realize this operation by lazy to understand what do you want with the data and lazy to understand if OFBiz already managed it by 
>> a different way. In my society we finished to say "OFBiz is stronger than YOU" because on most of time, all we need already exist.
>>
>> Finally change the data model on the fly don't make sens
>>
>> Nicolas
>>
>> Le 07/02/2017  14:04, Ahmad Rababah a crit :
>>
>>     Hello Dear,
>>
>>     I can adding dynamic field to my entityDef.xml from browser ?
>>     I want to add column in my entity dynamic not manual , I can do that ?
>>


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