Hi Nicolas,

The concept sounds interesting, but I'm having a bit of difficulty
understanding the design from your explanation. Perhaps a JIRA with a
PoC patch might help put it in perspective. But overall I like the
general idea of allowing overridden PDF templates.

On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 11:10 PM, Nicolas Malin
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Currently, I work on a pdf invoice creation for a personal project and I
> wish go for this time to improve the printable document configuration (like
> order pdf, invoice pdf, shipment pdf, and soon) related to the
> organizational party that at its origin.
>
> To realize it I started a POC where a add a new entity PartyAcctgPrefTplDoc
> (maybe you have a better name) that associate an organizational party
> (PartyAcctgPreference), a documentType (invoiceType, orderType...) and a
> content.
> The content return the screen to use (as blog concept) and the standard
> document screen return the given screen or call the default screen is empty.
>
> With this improvement, you can create your own pdf template document in your
> custom plugin with associate data and use it without any framework
> modification.
>
> More, if you have a specific case to rendering different document following
> functional case, you can implement it on your screen.
>
> Also, we can have a standard choice to rendering your document from a
> content, manageable from PartyContent association.
>
> The life isn't pretty ? (french expression, if you not understant, just
> ignore it :)
>
> Feel free if you have some remarks, I will create an issue for each document
> type manageable by this concept to detail more this idea.
>
> For example :
>    Content data
>  ---------------------
>
>     <DataResource dataResourceId="MY_TPL_SALES_INV"
> dataResourceTypeId="URL_RESOURCE" dataResourceName="My templage sales
> invoice" mimeTypeId="application/pdf"
> objectInfo="component://myplugin/widget/AccountingPrintScreens.xml#MyBeautyfullInvoicePDF"/>
>
>     <Content contentId="MY_TPL_SALES_INV" contentTypeId="DOCUMENT"
> dataResourceId="MY_TPL_SALES_INV" contentName="My Beautyfull template sales
> invoice with flowers"/>
>
>     <ContentPurposeType contentPusposeTypeId="INVOICE_TEMPLATE"
> description="Content dedicate to rendering invoices"/>
>
>     <PartyAcctgPrefTplDoc partyId="Company" invoiceTypeId="SALES_INVOICE"
> contentId="MY_TPL_SALES_INV" fromDate="2000-01-01 00:00:00" />
>
>  ----------------------
>
>   Standard screen (application/accounting/widget/AccountinPrintScreens.xml)
>  -------------------------
>    <screen name="InvoicePDF">...
>      <actions><script
> location="component://accounting/groovyScripts/invoice/GetInvoiceTemplateScreen.groovy"/></actions>
>      <widgets>
>           <include-screen name="${screenName}"
> location="${screenLocation}"/>
>      </widgets>
>     </screen>
>
>     <screen name="DefaultInvoicePDF">
>         <section>.....
>  ------------------------
>
> GetInvoiceTemplateScreen.groovy return DefaultInvoicePDF screen if didn't
> found any configuration for the invoice.partyIdFrom (for sales) or
> invoice.partyId (for purchase)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Nicolas
>
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