Comment 5 for bug 1193281

Thanks

On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 4:08 AM, Guewen Baconnier @ Camptocamp <
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> The scenario which have been chosen on the schema [0] are:
> B3,C3,D3,E3
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1193281
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> Title:
> 'Company' field of a Magento address is not used for the name of the
> OpenERP partner
>
> Status in OpenERP Connector:
> Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> The issue discussed here is what should we do with the 'company'
> information that we have on the magento addresses.
>
> First, I want to put up some facts and establish a vocabulary to avoid
> any confusion :
>
> * On Magento, I use the words 'Account' for the main entity (where the
> e-mail address is registered) and 'Addresses' for the... addresses.
> * On OpenERP, I use the word 'Partner' for the main entity which has the
> 'Is a company flag' and 'Contacts' for the entities which are linked to a
> 'Partner'.
>
> * In OpenERP, we'll always activate the flag 'Is a company' even if the
> Magento 'Account' is not a company. 'Is a company' is a misused term to
> mean that the 'Partner' is allowed to have several 'Addresses'. For Magento
> customers, we'll ever be able to link several addresses to them as they can
> in Magento. See the bug lp:1151947 for more information.
> * There is no Company field on the Magento 'Accounts', only on the
> 'Addresses'; we have no mean to know if an 'Account' is a company. The
> company field on the addresses is a 'char' field.
> * Each address in Magento can have its own content.
>
> Actually, this piece of information is just copied to a field 'company'
> in res.partner.
> This field is not printed anywhere in the reports, but could be added in
> the default address formats (once lp:1193271 has been fixed).
>
> An alternative solution is to bring up the 'company' content from the
> Magento address to the OpenERP 'partner'.
> However, this brings some questions, mainly:
> * How do we know from which address we should take the company, mostly
> when we have different companies between addresses or some address without
> a company and some with one.
> * When we have a different company on several addresses, what should we
> do with them? They should be displayed on the reports, but if we simply add
> them in the address frame, we'll probably end up with the partner's company
> name and the contact's company name displayed.
>
> Copy of the original discussion :
>
>
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>
> Summarizing with an example:
>
> In Magento I create an account with
> A customer X:
> - A name and first name (Guewen Baconnier)
> - There is no company name field!
> An address Y:
> - A name and a first name (Guewen Baconnier)
> - A company name (Camptocamp)
> A second address Z
> - A name and a first name (Guewen Baconnier)
> - I do not put a company name
>
> In OpenERP we have:
> A customer 1:
> - A name (Guewen Baconnier)
> - To match with the OpenERP data model, this customer is the mix
> between the customer X and the address Y (name of the address Y is kept)
> An address 2:
> - A name (Guewen Baconnier)
> - This is the address Z in Magento
>
> What you would expect is to have the company name in the name of the
> customer 1. But what would become the name of the address Y, should it
> be discarded?
>
> What should happen if the address Y has no company name but address Z
> has one?
>
> What should happen if I place an order in Magento with a new shipping
> address because I want it to be delivered to another company.
> An address Google
> - A name and a first name (Larry Page)
> - A company name (Google)
>
> We should be sure that the company name does not update the customer 1
> name. What would you expect?
>
> Could it be an option to display 'Company name, Name' in the contacts
> when a company name is defined? Or to add a 'company' field in the
> contacts? and to use the company name in customer1 when a company name
> is defined in the first address (Y)? I'm a bit concerned by the loss
> of the first name/last name of address Y...
>
>
> Proposed by David:
>
> This is how I would approach it.
>
> 1. There is a Company Name
> Create a company with the name of the company. Add the address to the
> company. Create Customers with the Shipping and Billing addresses if they
> have them
> 2. There is no company name and the shipping and billing address match
> Create a contact with the the address type of default
> 3. There is no company and the shipping and billing address do not match
> Create the Customer as the company and create a shipping and billing
> contact as customers associated with the company.
>
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