Organizations & Sources

I'm doing some research on approaches to building a flexible
 
directory. One of the opportunities I was looking at was
using  
Sources here as a way to keep things -- Stories, Media, etc.
-- all  
tied together (go with me here for a sec). So, as I started
thinking  
about Sources (and seeing some limitations there), I
stumbled on  
Bric::Biz::Org's description:

"This class represents organizations in Bricolage.
Organizations may  
be the companies for whom a person represented by a
Bric::Biz::Person  
object works, or an organization that owns the rights to a
given  
asset, or with whom a product is associated (this last use
will be  
included in a future version)."

And it seem like Bric::Biz::Org::Parts::Addr makes these
available:

type
city
state
code
country
lines

But, these parts are not exposed to the UI at all; and the 

Organization -- once created -- doesn't seem to get exposed
anywhere  
where a Person Object could be related to it. Just wondering
what the  
thinking was / is here before I go down this path too far.

Phillip.

--
Phillip Smith,
Simplifier of Technology
Community Bandwidth

On Aug 15, 2007, at 11:06, Phillip Smith wrote:

> And it seem like Bric::Biz::Org::Parts::Addr makes
these available:
>
> type
> city
> state
> code
> country
> lines
>
> But, these parts are not exposed to the UI at all; and
the  
> Organization -- once created -- doesn't seem to get
exposed  
> anywhere where a Person Object could be related to it.
Just  
> wondering what the thinking was / is here before I go
down this  
> path too far.

I wrote that stuff at the very beginning, but there was no
demand for  
it in the UI. Feel free to expose it in the UI and/or SOAP,
though.  
It has been on the to-do list for a long time.

Best,

David

On Aug 20, 2007, at 3:00 PM, David E. Wheeler wrote:

>> And it seem like Bric::Biz::Org::Parts::Addr makes
these available:
>>
>> type
>> city
>> state
>> code
>> country
>> lines
>>
>> But, these parts are not exposed to the UI at all;
and the  
>> Organization -- once created -- doesn't seem to get
exposed  
>> anywhere where a Person Object could be related to
it. Just  
>> wondering what the thinking was / is here before I
go down this  
>> path too far.
>
> I wrote that stuff at the very beginning, but there was
no demand  
> for it in the UI. Feel free to expose it in the UI
and/or SOAP,  
> though. It has been on the to-do list for a long time.

Cool. Thanks for the clarification. 


--
Phillip Smith,
Simplifier of Technology
Community Bandwidth

On Aug 27, 2007, at 09:28, Phillip Smith wrote:

> Just re-reading http://www
.bricolage.cc/docs/current/api/? 
> Bric::Biz::Org::Parts::Addr
>
> "...or an organization that owns the rights to a
given asset, or  
> with whom a product is associated (this last use will
be included  
> in a future version)."
>
> ... and wondering what the general gist of this feature
was to be?  
> I.e., are there some specific use

If there were, they're long forgotten.

Best,

David