Two quick comments. Maybe include a SKU # field, and change buy-price to cost (cost of goods sold), since manufactured items could be in inventory.
> -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Inventory system design: proposal: > From: "Lianto Ruyang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, October 09, 2007 9:15 am > To: "gnucash developer" <gnucash-devel@gnucash.org> > > Hello Everyone, > > I want to add an inventory system to gnucash. After looking at the code and > considering how i want it to be, i come up with the following design: > > inventory-system: > * core > - Item { name, sell-price, buy-price, quantity, description, item_group, > asset-account, expense-account, > income-account } > - Item_group { name, list_of_item } > > * ui > - input-dialog > - select-dialog (A tree-view of "Item_groups", and inside each "Item_group" > are the "Items") > - invoice (Press "Enter" in the description register will pop-up the > select-dialog) > > * report (profit of each item, qty of each item, etc) > * backend (xml??) > > The "Item" and "Item_group" object will be derived from QofInstance, so they > will be queryable. Above are informations which i think is needed most for > those objects. > The 'asset-account', 'expense-account', and 'income-account' will be useful > in filling the invoice. After a user select an "Item" from select-dialog, > the "account" columns and "price" columns can be automatically filled. > The dialogs can be created using glade. > > There are a lot of problems which i choose to put aside for now (because it > gives me too much headache :) such as > - how to make the select-dialog can show items quickly (i imagine if the > items are in thousands the tree-view will be very slow) > - is it allright to modify the current invoice, or is it better to make > another special invoice for inventory? > and lots lots of other things which hasn't occured to me just now. Not to > mention how to write the code :) > > Please tell me your opinion (any opinion!!) and thoughts. I've never > involved in opensource software development before, lot of stuff to learn. > Hope it 's ok. > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel