Hi Dominic,
Province data and similar locality data is part of the seed data and
loaded from the /framework/common/data/Geo*.xml files you should be able
to spot that being loaded in your initial setup log output. It's been a
while since I've spun up a clean instance, but the data is certainly
there so it's just not being loaded for some reason.
Hope that helps,
Jason
On 26/10/2020 16:55, Dominic Amann wrote:
I am attempting to setup OFBiz for my business.
I am a Linux developer of many years experience.
I wanted a secure (SSL) setup, and I thought I would use Mariadb as I
already use that for other software, and I would avoid duplication with
another database. I stretched this further by wanting to have no demo data.
I found it very difficult to accomplish all this. Much more difficult than
I might have expected for a major apache project. However, I persevered,
and after a whole weekend of work, I got it working to a first order. I
have documented each step I took.
HOWEVER:
I CANNOT ADD A PARTY MAILING ADDRESS. There are no provinces listed for
Canada. There are no states listed for the USA. I don't know other
countries intimately, so I can't speak for them. As a result of being
incomplete, I cannot add addresses at all.
I initially thought this must be because I did not use the demo data. So, I
repeated my work, but left the demo data in place. SAME PROBLEM.
Then I thought that perhaps I should do the migration (to Mysql) AFTER
setting up the initial data. That was BROKEN and wouldn't complete on
import, and the resulting website wouldn't display properly.
Then I thought it might be the database - perhaps it doesn't work with
mysql. I would just do the straightforward install, and work with that.
SAME PROBLEM.
So here we are: 3 full days and I can't enter my first employee, even with
the simplest install with default settings. Of course there is one
fundamental lesson here: never just believe that something works just
because it is from a reputable project that has been out there for years. I
should have known better.
