Centralized ID Management

Configuration

You need to configure the parameters in the System Configurator Window:

Specially the parameters:

DICTIONARY_ID_USER = Your committer github ID

and

DICTIONARY_ID_PASSWORD = Your committer assigned password
For password assignment procedure please ask in idempiere forums.

Development

When you're ready to develop a trunk enhancement, bug or feature request that requires official dictionary ID's, you need to open a System or GardenWorld session and check the flag "Dictionary Maintenance" in Preferences window.

When you check the "Log Migration Script" the field "Migration Script Comment" is displayed, you can fill it with some information (like ticket number) related to the enhancement, bug or feature request you're solving, example:

You must push the Save button for these changes to be saved, but please note these parameters are not saved between sessions - so you need to check it any time you are going to develop something new for the trunk.

After this you just continue creating the needed dictionary objects and iDempiere will assign the ID's from the centralized website developer.idempiere.com

The Log

If you want to review the log of used ID's for a table, you can navigate to the site:

http://developer.idempiere.com/cgi-bin/showlog?AD_Reference

Please replace the AD_Reference name with the table you want to see.

IMPORTANT NOTE: When in "Dictionary Maintenance" mode all records for clients System and GardenWorld will get centralized IDs

For Projects with Distributed Developers

If you conduct project with distributed developers - with distributed development databases, then you have the same problem as iDempiere Committers to synchronize the dictionary ID's

This implementation can help also for these projects.

You just need to install the cgi scripts provided in:
https://github.com/globalqss/idempiere-stuff/tree/stuff/POC_Central_System_IDs/linux

Set up a data directory ../data relative to cgi-bin directory for your project:
https://github.com/globalqss/idempiere-stuff/tree/stuff/POC_Central_System_IDs/linux/data/Adempiere

Register your developers in the file data/PROJECT_NAME/RegisteredDevelopers.pwd

And set the system configurator parameters for project usage:

PROJECT_ID_USE_CENTRALIZED_ID = Y  (default is N)
PROJECT_ID_WEBSITE = with the website provided for the centralized ID management
PROJECT_ID_PROJECT = name of the project set up
PROJECT_ID_USER = your user name for the project
PROJECT_ID_PASSWORD = your password committer for the project

This will assign centralized ID's for all tables that have EntityType column, in the seed those are:

AD_Chart
AD_ChartDatasource
AD_Column
AD_Element
AD_EntityType
AD_Field
AD_FieldGroup
AD_Form
AD_Image
AD_IndexColumn
AD_InfoColumn
AD_InfoProcess
AD_InfoRelated
AD_InfoWindow
AD_Menu
AD_Message
AD_ModelValidator
AD_Modification
AD_Process
AD_Process_Para
AD_Reference
AD_Ref_List
AD_Ref_Table
AD_RelationType
AD_ReplicationStrategy
AD_ReplicationTable
AD_ReportView
AD_Rule
AD_SearchDefinition
AD_StatusLine
AD_StatusLineUsedIn
AD_Style
AD_StyleLine
AD_SysConfig
AD_Tab
AD_Table
AD_TableIndex
AD_Task
AD_ToolBarButton
AD_Val_Rule
AD_ViewColumn
AD_ViewComponent
AD_WF_NextCondition
AD_WF_Node
AD_WF_NodeNext
AD_WF_Node_Para
AD_WF_Responsible
AD_Window
AD_Workflow
AD_ZoomCondition
PA_ColorSchema
PA_DocumentStatus
PA_MeasureCalc
PP_Order_Node
PP_Order_NodeNext
PP_Order_Workflow
PP_WF_Node_Product

Step to deploy server on CentOS Stream 9

#install httpd and git to clone idempiere-stuff of Carlos
sudo yum -y install httpd git

# install to have SEMANAGE to setting selinux
sudo yum install -y policycoreutils-python-utils

# add to firewall port
sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=80/tcp
sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=443/tcp
sudo firewall-cmd --reload

# run and setting httpd
sudo systemctl start httpd
sudo systemctl enable httpd.service

# clone idempiere-stuff
git clone https://github.com/globalqss/idempiere-stuff.git

# copy cgi script to web diretory
sudo cp -r ~/idempiere-stuff/POC_Central_System_IDs/linux/cgi-bin/* /var/www/cgi-bin

# create data for his project
sudo mkdir -p /var/www/data/his

# create user file
sudo touch /var/www/data/his/RegisteredDevelopers.pwd

######################################################### use nano to add use by format "youruser|yourpassword"

#### set right to write content to data folder
# let apache have write right
sudo chown -R apache:apache /var/www/data
# let httpd process have selinux write
sudo semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_rw_content_t "/var/www/data(/.*)?"
# store sewrite to stable, so don't loss when reboot
sudo restorecon -F -R -v /var/www/data/

# reboot server to take it on account
# check it work by browse to http://yourserver/cgi-bin/get_ID?PROJECT=his&USER=youruser&PASSWORD=yourpassword&TABLE=AD_Column&ALTKEY=&COMMENT=Comment
# if you get value with increase each time you refresh page, it's done

FAQ

1. I will need to migrate some internal modifications to trunk, more exactly some columns that have internal allocated IDs (> 1000000). What is the best way to get IDs from IDs server without creating the columns (because i already have them, i just need to change the IDs) ?

http://developer.idempiere.com/cgi-bin/get_ID?PROJECT=Adempiere&USER=your_user&PASSWORD=your_password&TABLE=AD_Column&ALTKEY=&COMMENT=Comment

Dissected :-) NOTE: The table names are case sensitive

http://developer.idempiere.com/: the website providing the ID's where cgi shells are installed
cgi-bin/get_ID: the shell that reserves ID's get_ID
?PROJECT=Adempiere: the project Adempiere (centralized ID can be used to manage IDs for other projects but it needs some setup)
&USER=your_user: your assigned user (normally the same as github)
&PASSWORD=your_password: your assigned password
&TABLE=AD_Column: the table you want to reserve ID (in this example AD_Column - case sensitive!)
&ALTKEY=: unused at this moment, to save alternate key for tables like Value
&COMMENT=Comment -- the comments on the reservation

The result of the call is a page with the assigned ID.

To review the log you can call:

http://developer.idempiere.com/cgi-bin/showtaillog?AD_Column (NOTE: Or use showlog for full log, recommended is to use showtaillog)

That's it, call the showlog.cgi with the table as parameter.