Hi Olivier. Glad to be in touch after Cyril made the introduction a little
while back. It's good to know that the install process was smooth and
painless for you. We would gladly welcome a new user in Senegal as we don't
currently have customers on Mifos X from there!
Please see my responses inline (to the best of my knowledge). If you need
to set up a direct call, please let me know and we can arrange a Skype
call.
Vishwas responded as I was so I'll see where I can add any additional value
:)
>
> ## 1. Transaction reciepts
>
> On the transaction tab of the loan details page, there is a "view reciept"
> button next to each transaction, but I never saw a "upload reciept"...
> field when disbursing a loan or making repayments.
> How does this work ? Is there a suggested strategy to keep evidence about
> transactions ?
>
> (By the way, when I click on "view reciept", I get an error
> "{"developerMessage":"The request caused a data integrity issue to be fired
> by the...}", see questions 4. below)
>
>
> ## 2. Translation
>
> I'll be using Mifos in French. It's great to have an existing translation,
> but it is incomplete and contains some mistakes. I'm willing to contribute
> to translation, and I saw it's easy using translatewiki.net.
> Is it possible to use the new contributed translation directly in my
> in-production system ? (or can I download translatewiki.net's translation
> as locale-fr.json easily ?)
> Alternatively, is it possible to edit locale-fr.json directly, and still
> upstream my modifications ? (through pull request)
>
Thanks for your willingness to contribute the translation. From translate
wiki.net is it it possible down the translations file for local offline
translations using a tool like PoEdit. It can then be uploaded back into
translatewiki.net. If done directly via the online interface for TWN, that
gets synced regularly with our codebase but you'd have to wait till the
next time the sync occurs. It has been a little while since changes were
last merged so that should be happening soon.
>
>
> ## 3. Fees for the group
>
> In our setup, we have a fee/interest (5% flat) that is payed from the
> client to the group (a percentage of the amount). That fee stays in the
> group's savings, which is in most of the cases not managed by us (but
> rather in the group's already existing saving accounts).
> Still, it would be nice if this fee could be included in the repayment
> schedule.
> Is there a way to do this ?
>
> I tried to create a fee (per installment, 5% flat). It works, but its
> payment is not separated from the principal payment, while it should go to
> a separate account.
>
>
One of our functional experts can likely provide a better reply. At the
general ledger level, If you're assessing the fee at the loan level per
installment, you could configure it via an advanced accounting rule, such
that the fee is being mapped to a specific income account. But if you're
looking to have the fee end up in a different portfolio account, you could
configure a standing instruction to then transfer money from the client
savings account to the group savings account.
We are also now adding support for client-level fees and will soon be
adding percentage based-ones - currently it's simply a flat fee that can be
collected up front at a point in time.
> ## 4. Javascript errors
>
> I noticed some javascript errors and UI malfunctions (for instance date
> widgets not working, some UI elements like "Interest method" in "Create
> Loan Product" not appearing, "create payment type" missing the submit
> button, date appearing as NaN undefined 0NaN in certain navigators, submit
> button ...).
>
> Even if it is the same version, those error appear on my local
> installation, but not on the online demo. Any idea why ?
>
> It also seems some errors are navigator-dependant, is there a recommended
> navigator to use Mifos ?
> It also seems some date formats and/or languages trigger errors...
> Should I report all those errors directly on github's issue tracker ?
>
As Vishwas said, please do so on JIRA in Mifosforge.
>
>
> ## 5. Roles
>
> Are there some typical roles permissions examples ? We'll be needing roles
> like "manager" (who can approve loans and clients...), "agent" (who can
> prepare new clients and loans, who can register payments etc.). I'm a bit
> overwhelmed by all the checkboxes at this point.
>
This is an often requested feature (predefined roles that can be modified
and adjusted) so we'll make sure it gets prioritized accordingly on our
roadmap as it's in high demand.. The Mifos X 15.09 release coming out in
several days has some optimizations to the UI for the permissions page so
it's not quite as overwhelming with all the checkboxes. Have you been
reading the user documentation and API documentation to understand the
permissions. Our pre-configuration questionnaire is also helpful in setting
up and thinking about the roles -
https://mifosforge.jira.com/wiki/download/attachments/52035605/Pre%20Configuration%20Plan.docx?version=1&modificationDate=1396545486654&api=v2
Also, am I right understanding Mifos user's capability is limited to his
> Office ?
>
>
>
>
>
>
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