In Chapter 1, we entered some fictitious personal details as an anonymous shopper. OFBiz keeps track of every shopper, even anonymous ones. Let's revisit the "order" webapp to have a look at the anonymous shopper entity that OFBiz created when we bought something via the ecommerce site. Fire an https request, control/orderview?orderId=WS10000, to webapp ordermgr
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We're looking at the details of the order we created and processed in Chapter 1. In the Contact Information screenlet, we see the familiar details of the anonymous shopper who created the order.
Looking at the name of the anonymous shopper (OFBiz Researcher), we see a system ID (identification number, 10000 in this case) assigned to the shopper. This ID uniquely identifies the shopper in the OFBiz database. Click on the ID to view the detailed profile screen for the shopper. This will bring us to the webapp partymgr
. We'll be asked to log in again because we just clicked on an external link (external to webapp...