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[Sharoon Thomas <sharoonthomas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

Can we not just add the new field for lastname in the res.partner.address

Its duplicating functionality of other module, but the other modules are a
bloat for the purpose?

Thanks,

On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 9:54 PM, Jordi Esteve <jesteve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

>  +1 for the solution 3/. It is not a clean solution but it is simple.
>
> Jordi
>
> En/na Vianney ha escrit:
>
> Hello community,
>
> As we are improving the connector by allowing an update of the partners
> from OpenERP to Magento, we are facing a little issue, linked with a
> question asked by Guewen :
> https://answers.launchpad.net/magentoerpconnect/+question/132197
>
> When importing the partners from Magento, it concatenates the Magento
> fields firstname and lastname to the OpenERP field name, so, when updating
> the data in Magento we lost information (the separation between the
> firstname and the lastname)
>
> We thought of three solutions and we would like your opinion on that :
> 1/ we can, as suggested by Guewen, use the base_partner_surname module (in
> extra modules) but it is deprecated and the strongly suggest to use the
> base_contact module (in addons) instead.
> 2/ we can so use this base_contact module but we think it is a very heavy
> module and maybe it is not such a good idea to use it for such a little
> benefit
> 3/ we can simply change the mapping in the magentoerpconnect module to
> insert a separator between first and last names such as ' / ' so in OpenERP
> it will look like 'John / Doe' (note that it is the solution used now but
> the separator is simply ' ' and so it will not separate properly the first
> and last names when the first name is composed (Roberto Carlos for
> instance))
>
> We think that the solution 3/ is better because it won't add complexity in
> the connector and we don't think it is problematic to introduce this '/' in
> the name field because it is easy to remove if needed (like in reports).
>
> So, what do you think?
>
> --
> Vianney
> www.akretion.com.br
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Sharoon Thomas
Business Analyst & Open Source ERP Consultant
CEO @ http://openlabs.co.in