Add an ABPerson to an ABGroup - iphone

I need to create an address book group, then add 10 ABPerson records as group members.
This is what I'm doing:
Create the group with ABGroupCreate()
Use ABGroupAddMember() to add a person to the group
The person record is not getting added. I am saving the address book.
Why doesn't the person get added to the group?

Before a person record can be added to a group, it must already be in the Address Book database. If you need to add a new person record to a group and to the database at the same time, you must first add it to the address book database, save the database, and then add the person record to the group.

You need to do save of group record and save address book before the addmember call

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Spring data and MongoDB - bidirectional connection of documents

I have two Documents in my Spring data - MongoDB application:
The first one is Contact and looks like this:
public class Contact {
...
private List<Account> accounts;
and the second one is Account and looks like this:
public class Account {
...
private Contact contact;
My question now is, whether there is a better way of:
1. create contact object
2. save contact object into database
3. create account object
4. set contact object into account object
5. save account object into database
6. set created account object into contact object
7. update contact object
These are many steps and I will avoid to do such a long list to get Contact and Account connected bidirectional.
Try this approach
MongoDB is a NOSQL DB and hence there is no need of an order to be preserved, such as create and store contact object and then do so more in a sequential way.
Maintain a sequence for Contact and Account object. Before storing these two records get the next number in the sequence and insert the Contact and Account documents.
References for autoincrement sequence
https://docs.mongodb.com/v3.0/tutorial/create-an-auto-incrementing-field/
https://www.tutorialspoint.com/mongodb/mongodb_autoincrement_sequence.htm
Pseudo Code:
Get the next Sequence of Contact and Account Id
Add the id's to respective documents
Insert the Documents in Mongodb
While retrieving the records you can use $lookup which is a left outer join.
Please note that chance of loss of integrity in data can happen if one insert is happened successfully and other insert did not happen for some reason.
We dont have transaction support in Mongodb across collections, more info.

What's the relationship between res.partner and res.user?

I am new to odoo v8 and i am not able to understand the relationship between res_partner and res_users tables and also with hr_employee table are they all related?
The relationship between res.partner and res.user is that res.user inherits from res.partner using an inheritance type called "Delegation Inheritance" (see documentation).
Because of "Delegation Inheritance" every res.user record has a mandatory internal connection to a corresponding res.partner record using a field partner_id. What is this connection all about is to directly use all the fields of res.partner to store data shared by res.user and res.partner (i.e. name, phone, etc... if for example you refer to phone property of a record of res.user you'll get the value stored in the corresponding res.partner record) so res.user has to define fewer number of fields on it's own, like password, login, etc..
Note also that because of this relation res.user can NOT exist in the system without corresponding res.partner, it's why every res.user has one, but nonetheless res.partner can exist without res.user.
hr.employee have m21 with res.users (user_id)
res.users have m21 with res.partner(partner_id)
Actually only res.users has a "real" relationship to res.partner, because with every user odoo will create a partner (per default no customer and no supplier). this partner will be used e.g. for emails and the followers system in odoo.
But you can have partners without users, too. That will be a normal partner, for defining customers and suppliers.
And finally there is the employee. You can set a user on it. If i recall right, the user will be used for attendances and timesheets.

Create record in related table *only* if not previously existing there

I have a Filemaker database with a Members table, an Events table, and a join table called Attendance which should list which members attended which events. Attendance has the setting "allow creation of new records" ticked for Members (doesn't need it for Events).
Data arrives in an Excel spreadsheet for importing to Attendance. But then I want to see if there are people attending who aren't in our records already... sort of like this:
look at each of the newly added records in the attendance table
see if the members mentioned there exist in the member table
if so, do nothing
else create a new record in the member table for them, using data from the attendance table.
If I'm understanding it correctly, Steps 3 and 4 should look something like this:
Set Variable [ $fname; Value: Attendance::firstname ]
Go To Layout ["Member" (Firstname)]
New Record/Request
Set Field [Member::Firstname; $fname]
i.e. put the desired info into variables, start a new record in the related table and set the data there to the value of the variables.
But how do I get step 2 happening? I'm guessing some sort of loop will go through the found set of records in Attendance, and grab the relevant identifier. How do I show that to the Member table to see if it's present or not?
"Firstname" might be a bit light to pinpoint a unique member, if you have many members !
I'd presume therefore you would have some sort of unique key for each member.
As from there, just search for the member in the member base, before creating the new record…
Link the two tables with an EQUALS relationship.
Write a script:
// Loop through your attendance records.
// Be sure you're in the correct layout
Go to Layout ["imported list"]
// Attempt to go to the membership record of the person who is attending the event.
Go to Related Record [Show only records from: from table: "membership table"; using layout: "membership table"
// If the person who is attending IS in the membership list, you'll go to that member's record in the "membership table."
// If the person who is attending is NOT in the membership list, you'll get an error. You can use that error in an if statement to execute code to add that member.
If [Get ( LastError ) = "101"]
// insert code to add new member
End if
Since you already have a relationship between Member and Attendance, it means that you can "see" any related Members from the Attendance table across the relationship.
We also know that you only need to evaluate the new attendance records coming in from your spreadsheet.
I also assume that there could possibly be be more than one attendance record per Member in the spreadsheet. This may not be the case, but it's safer to assume it's possible.
I'm also assuming that you are linking the Member table to the Attendance table via the primary key in Members and a foreign key in Attendance, i.e. Member::ID = Attendance::Member ID.
So here's the script process I suggest:
Import the new Attendance record into the Attendance table.
This will give you a found set of only new attendance records
From the Attendance layout, perform a find for related Member records with an omit, i.e.:
# This assumes you're already on the Attendance layout
Enter Find Mode
Set field [Member::ID ; "*"]
Omit record
Constrain Find
This will give you a found set of new Attendance records that do not have matching Member records.
From here you could loop through each of the attendance records and create the Member records as needed.
If you check the Allow creation on the Member side of the Member -< Attendance relationship, you could set the field in the Member table directly from the Attendance layout.
Since the 1 to Many relationship between Member and Attendance goes 1=Member Many=Attendance, you would need to check to be sure you haven't already created a Member record during your loop, i.e. If a new Member had multiple Attendance records you could have already created a Member record during the loop.
Your loop would look like this:
Go to Record [First]
Loop
If [IsEmpty(Member::ID)]
Set Field [Member::First Name] // This first Set Field will create your new Member Record as long as the "Allow Creation" is enabled on the Member side
Set Field [Member::Last Name]
... This would be the rest of your set field steps for Member
End If
Go to Record [Next ; Exit After Last]
End Loop
This way you don't need to navigate away from your Attendance record set. Also, the Primary and Foreign keys for both tables will be created and set automatically through the attributes of the relationship itself.

Type of Person Entries and Group Entries

In iphone, what are the type of Person entries and Group Entries?
1) ABPersonRef and ABGroupRef
2) ABPerson and ABGroup
3) ABRecordRef and ABRecordRef
4) ABRecord and ABRecord
5) None of Above
please anybody tell me which option is write one?
In the Address Book database, information is stored in records, represented by ABRecordRef objects. Each record represents a person or group.
Person records are made up of both single-value and multivalue properties. Properties that a person can have only one of, such as first name and last name, are stored as single-value properties. Other properties that a person can have more that one of, such as street address and phone number, are multivalue properties.
Users may organize their contacts into groups for a variety of reasons. For example, a user may create a group containing coworkers involved in a project, or members of a sports team they play on. Your application can use groups to allow the user to perform an action for several contacts in their address book at the same time.
Group records have only one property, kABGroupNameProperty, which is the name of the group. To get all the people in a group, use the function ABGroupCopyArrayOfAllMembers
For More Information, visit Address Book Programming Guide for iPhone

FileMaker - Finding Primary Key of First Related Record

I'm using a script to create a new Invoice record. I'd like to automatically set the invoice's fClient fContactID column to the ID of the client's first contact.
In my script, how would I find/compute the ID of the client's first contact? SetField with a calculated result of Min(Contact_Invoice Contact::ContactID) didn't work.
Tables:
Client - primary key: ClientID
Contact - has foreign key: fClientID (a client can have many contacts)
Invoice - has foreign keys: fClientID & fContactID (an invoice is associated with one client and with one of that client's contacts)
Thank you,
Ben
You say you want to set the "fClientID", but from your description it sound more like you're wanting to set the fContactID. Is that right?
If that's the case, then you have an Invoice, related to a Client, which is directly related to a Contact. What you're doing is right, but if it's not working then your context isn't right. Your context at the time is the Invoice table, so the related Contact needs to be accessible from there.
You could also use an auto enter calc instead of a script to set this. Extra bonus is that this will only let you select a valid context and related table.