Re: payment/invoice demo data file in accounting component

[David E Jones]

-David


On Oct 13, 2007, at 4:17 AM, Hans Bakker wrote:

What would be nice here is a little automated unit test to do this, and it should be pretty easy. We have a number of nice tools to do service level testing. There are some complicated examples in the service engine that are written java because we needed more exception and transaction control (they test funky stuff...), but in most cases using simple-methods and what what is easier. With this you could run the test for a specific component to get the data in quickly, or even have tests that generate the PDFs or whatever and dump it to a file so you can test/review even more quickly. Better than maintaining data that the system normally generates manually (which isn't working so well...), and better than manually running stuff to generate the data.

But on a demo system where you can not update?
Now you can see an invoice, you show a pdf etc....

On Sat, 2007-10-13 at 09:16 +0200, Jacopo Cappellato wrote:

Hans Bakker wrote:

The reason it is in, to have some data in the files and not start empty

and show the application feature.

(with a few clicks).

If you create an order and quick ship it you'll get a much better result

The invoice.uomId and ItemTypeId was changed after the creation, and the

productId can be empty.

Perhaps update the demo data?

so, in my opinion, if they are there just to save a few mouse clicks
before (or during) a demo, we should remove them.

Jacopo

In my opinion, this is the real problem: no one is maintaining this demo data (the changes you refer to probably happened a few months ago) and

Regards,
Hans

On Sat, 2007-10-13 at 08:10 +0200, Jacopo Cappellato wrote:

Do we really need this demo data file?

http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ofbiz/trunk/applications/ accounting/data/PaymentsInvoices.xml

and wrong value for the InvoiceItem.uomId field).

What if we just remove this file?

Jacopo

It contains demo data for payments and invoices and I'm not sure how this data should be used; most of all, there are a few errors in the data (missing InvoiceItem.productId, wrong InvoiceItem.invoiceItemTypeId

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