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Subject: Re: [ubl] How does an OrderResponse show orderacceptance/rejection?
Greetings UBL TC This issue arises because the ebBP TC are seeking to improve their 'drop-ship' example of a business process definition for use of UBL 1.0 documents in a drop-ship or marketplace environment and I have pointed out the need to correct some of the details of the process's 'condition expressions' http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ebxml-bp/200511/msg00024.html The condition expressions denote the conditions which act as the basis for decisions at forks in the process and acceptance or rejection of the order is a key one of these. The ebBP TC would welcome any help from the UBL TC in advising on these conditions. I would like to help pin down exactly how a UBL 1.0 Order, OrderResponse and OrderResponseSimple relate to each other in a typical process, for instance: Since the UBL 1.0 documentation states that the OrderResponseSimple is the document to use by the Seller to show rejection or acceptance of the order whereas it states that the OrderResponse is to be used to alter the line of the order (with no mention of using it to show acceptance or rejection and no apparent way in the document or lines of an OrderResponse to cater for this), I'd like to understand whether there is therefore a logical weakness, with 1.0, in using the OrderResponse enumeration of the AcknowledgementResponseCode in an Order. The latter would have the weakness, it seems, in limiting the response to just OrderResponse so that there is then no way to properly signal acceptance or rejection of the Order (in the business document layer). If this is a weakness, then this ebBP exercise, I think, is providing a good opportunity for UBL to receive valuable implementation feedback of sorts and it might be that it leads to improvements in 2.0 (for the second committee draft, at this stage, I suppose) and this particular case shows that we may need to question whether the 2.0 process should emphasise the possibility of using the OrderResponse to show rejection/acceptance of an Order - the OrderResponseSimple does provide for this functionality but does the OrderResponse?. Alternatively we might want to ensure that OrderResponse has this functionailty and if not then, besides changing the documentation of the process, we might want to reconsider the inclusion in the Order, etc of the AcknowledgementResponseCode or reconsider its enumerations. All the best Stephen Green >>> "Stephen Green" <stephen_green@bristol-city.gov.uk> 09/11/05 11:18:24 >>> Looking at how all the documents of UBL 1.0 might be used together in a business process, I come across a problem: if the Order has its AcknowledgementResponseCode set to "OrderResponse" by the Buyer, how would the OrderResponse indicate whether the Order has been accepted or rejected? (OrderResponseSimple has AcceptedIndicator) Thanks for any light anyone can shed on this. All the best Stephen Green --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this mail list, you must leave the OASIS TC that generates this mail. You may a link to this group and all your TCs in OASIS at: https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/portal/my_workgroups.php
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