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Data entity extension for Vendor party base type

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Posted on by Rich 275

We've created a data entity to provide details of vendor transactions, and one of the fields required on the data entity is the vendor type (organisation or person). Party base type doesn't seem to be a database field (happy to be told I'm missing something), so we've ended up with a computed field in the data entity that feels more clunky than I'd like. Other than better use of SysComputedColumn to construct the outer joins, anyone have a smoother way to get this please?

public class CUSVendorTransactionEntity extends common
{
    public static server str VendorPartyType()
    {
        DataEntityName  dataEntityName= tablestr(CUSVendorTransactionEntity);
        str             AccountNum;
        str             qry;

        accountNum = SysComputedColumn::returnField(DataEntityName, identifierstr(VendTrans), fieldstr(VendTrans, AccountNum));

        qry = strFmt("select case when dpn.[recid] is null then 'Organisation' else 'Person' end from [VENDTABLE] vt inner join [DIRPARTYTABLE] dpt on vt.[PARTY] = dpt.[RECID] left outer join [DIRPERSONNAME] dpn on dpt.[RECID] = dpn.[PERSON] where vt.[ACCOUNTNUM] = %1", accountNum);

        return qry;
    }

}

  • Rich Profile Picture
    Rich 275 on at
    RE: Data entity extension for Vendor party base type

    Thanks André. Good reminder that there's normally a precedent somewhere.

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    André Arnaud de Calavon Profile Picture
    André Arnaud de Cal... 293,041 Super User 2025 Season 1 on at
    RE: Data entity extension for Vendor party base type

    Hi Rich,

    The party type is indeed not a database field. It is using an instance table ID as part of the table inheritance. You can consider using the same logic as Microsoft used themselves on the DirPartyBaseEntity:

    private static str partyType()
    {
        /*********************************************
        The following is an example of what the query string will look like, table id's may vary:
        
    CASE DirPartyTable.InstanceRelationType
        WHEN 11840 THEN 'Person'
        WHEN 1910  THEN 'Organization'
        WHEN 8099  THEN 'LegalEntity'
        WHEN 7525  THEN 'OperatingUnit'
        WHEN 6237  THEN 'Team'
        ELSE ''
        END
        *********************************************/
        Map partyTypesMap = DirUtility::getPartyTypeNames();

        return SysComputedColumn::switch(
            SysComputedColumn::comparisonField(tableStr(DirPartyBaseEntity), tableStr(DirPartyTable), fieldStr(DirPartyTable, InstanceRelationType)),
            partyTypesMap,
            SysComputedColumn::returnLiteral(''));
    }

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