2023-01-31 Architecture Meeting Minutes

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Date: Jan 31, 2023

Agenda

• Network/Welcome

• This meeting is subject to the terms of our anti-trust statement shown here.  In addition, this meeting may be recorded. 

• Review Meeting Minutes

• Review Contact/Party/Person/Company

Meeting Minutes

• Network

  • Eucalypts tress are falling due to all the rain in California.

• Antitrust Accepted

• Meeting Minutes Reviewed/Accepted

• Meeting Minutes

  • Mike has completed JIRAS that were assigned to him.

  • Jeff Shared Diagram with User, Company, Contact and Party

    • Contact is simple concept, ways to contact a person or an organization. A claimant can be a person or an organization. The communication is a superset in the BMS, but the diagram shows contact have the communication of name, address, phone number, email.

    • A company may have different kinds of contacts, so a one to many and a user can have many types of contacts as well because they can have business contact, home contact or parent contact.

    • Terminology is throwing everyone off, we need to determine the terminology of party and company and person.

  • Mike showed his examples.

    • First one was simple concept: basically, a user or a buyer purchasing parts and we have user ID and username.

      • few properties tell us the user

      • primary contact tells us who the user is with first name, last name and ID.

      • contact information for the user.

      • we can have bill to and ship to contact.

      • when these are different addresses, we send the different addresses for those.

    • Next examples show if the user if from body shop or company.

      • Same user information and username

      • name is added.

      • in this case the user if from the company. The user works for a bodyshop as an estimator, so the reference to the company id.

      • The Bill to and ship to build the address.

    • Third Example is the amazon model.

      • You have a user and a buyer.

        • Addition of birthdate

  • The BMS has overlap with party object and contact.

    • Recommend removing the duplicate contact fields from the party and just reference a contact within the party.

    • Can a company have a contact with no name? Yes

      • Have company name.

      • Have first name/last name under contact.

  • Named Value Pairs

    • Phone numbers, because we can have a type of phone number.

    • Company Id is a named Value pair because we can have different types of IDs for a company.

    • When it comes to primary bill to contact, we don’t have a contacts array with a contact type property, we have a flattened primary bill to contact and a secondary bill to contact and a shipped to contact.

    • It's an inconsistent design.

  • Another look.

    • Primary bill too contact is a contact object. Do we need an ID array?

    • We could add a Contact ID, but we don’t have it in the code list currently, which is why company id code list is being used in the example.

  • Universal Problem

    • Another way to look at this is the company’s party and contact are duplicates of each other and unnecessary and we need to normalize this, but how?

    • Need generic object to fit in everyone’s business use cases.

    • ID should be at the level of the person or the company. Basically, we should be the party and then once you have an ID for that, you have enough information.

  • Inconsistencies of arrays and valued pairs.

    • we need examples of how this would work with all the 100 things we have as ID qualifier code so we can flatten properties.

Great Discussion everyone!

Up Next

• Network/Welcome

• Antitrust

• Review Meeting Minutes

• Review new concepts in examples being worked.

Action items

Decisions

Participants

• Paulette Reed

• Mike Hastings

• Jeff Schroder

• Dan Webster

• Paul Barry

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