Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Thoughts on payment handling in 1.4.x

2007-04-26 Thread richard
Heck, I'd kiss him too. This is an eminently sane idea. Cheers, Richard (who hasn't yet started inputting data into his 1.2.4 test system, but will do Real Soon Now) Quoting Charley Tiggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I have clients that would kiss you if they could have that 'un! :) > > Charley >

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Thoughts on payment handling in 1.4.x

2007-04-26 Thread Chris Travers
On 4/26/07, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gerald writes: > > Of course changing a transaction in this environment will become > > impossible, making auditors very happy and end-users looking for ways > > around the system. > > It is quite possible to create a reversing entry and mark it

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Thoughts on payment handling in 1.4.x

2007-04-26 Thread John Hasler
Gerald writes: > Of course changing a transaction in this environment will become > impossible, making auditors very happy and end-users looking for ways > around the system. It is quite possible to create a reversing entry and mark it so that the transaction appears to have been changed to the us

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Thoughts on payment handling in 1.4.x

2007-04-26 Thread Chris Travers
Hi David; The model was a vague one with only minimal items shown for illustration (hence the reference that the table model could be far more complex than mentioned). Most of the database design work is being done by Josh Drake, and he is an expert in such things and if he doesn't do it, I am su

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Thoughts on payment handling in 1.4.x

2007-04-26 Thread David Tangye
On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 19:36 -0700, Chris Travers wrote: > On 4/26/07, Gerald Chudyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Are you planning total integration between accounting modules? I > > designed a gl like this once. The issues with ar and ap are fairly > > clear; each transaction is a db/cr to a f

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Thoughts on payment handling in 1.4.x

2007-04-26 Thread Chris Travers
On 4/26/07, Gerald Chudyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are you planning total integration between accounting modules? I > designed a gl like this once. The issues with ar and ap are fairly > clear; each transaction is a db/cr to a few well defined gl accounts > with a reference to customer/vendor

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Thoughts on payment handling in 1.4.x

2007-04-26 Thread Gerald Chudyk
On 4/26/07, Chris Travers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all; > > I have been thinking a great deal about the data organization of > financial transactions for 1.4 even though we are not there yet. I > think we can all agree we need to have a central table which tracks > every financial transacti

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Thoughts on payment handling in 1.4.x

2007-04-26 Thread Charley Tiggs
I have clients that would kiss you if they could have that 'un! :) Charley Chris Travers wrote: > The other thing this would allow would be for a general journal report > (a description of every transaction in chronological order of entry) > with payments appearing in the proper places. > > Bes

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Thoughts on payment handling in 1.4.x

2007-04-26 Thread Chris Travers
The other thing this would allow would be for a general journal report (a description of every transaction in chronological order of entry) with payments appearing in the proper places. Best Wishes, Chris Travers On 4/26/07, Charley Tiggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Travers wrote: > > Hi a

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Thoughts on payment handling in 1.4.x

2007-04-26 Thread Charley Tiggs
Chris Travers wrote: > Hi all; > > I have been thinking a great deal about the data organization of > financial transactions for 1.4 even though we are not there yet. I > think we can all agree we need to have a central table which tracks > every financial transaction and which other tables may j

[Ledger-smb-devel] Thoughts on payment handling in 1.4.x

2007-04-26 Thread Chris Travers
Hi all; I have been thinking a great deal about the data organization of financial transactions for 1.4 even though we are not there yet. I think we can all agree we need to have a central table which tracks every financial transaction and which other tables may join to. I would propose that thi

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] proposing Section 508 compliance as requirement for 2.x

2007-04-26 Thread Jeff Kowalczyk
--- Chris Travers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have some ideas about preventing duplicate submissions but nothing > definite yet. >From past descriptions, the planned in-database business logic will return an error for any invalid-action input, whether it comes from the browsers UI, a resumbitte

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] proposing Section 508 compliance as requirement for 2.x

2007-04-26 Thread Chris Travers
On 4/26/07, John Locke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is what REST is about--REpresentational State Transfer. All of the > state information is kept in the request, so the server doesn't need to > maintain state for each request. This has the benefits you're looking > for--proper browser history

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] proposing Section 508 compliance as requirement for 2.x

2007-04-26 Thread Jeff Kowalczyk
--- Ed W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please show me an example. My point is that REST is irrelevant, it's > just a different encoding for the same kind of interface. However, > unless someone can show me a feature of cookies which makes them in some > way browser window specific, I claim tha

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] proposing Section 508 compliance as requirement for 2.x

2007-04-26 Thread Ed W
Hi > This is what REST is about--REpresentational State Transfer. All of the > state information is kept in the request, so the server doesn't need to > maintain state for each request. This has the benefits you're looking > for--proper browser history, ability to have different sessions in > diff

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] proposing Section 508 compliance as requirement for 2.x

2007-04-26 Thread John Locke
Ed W wrote: > Hi > > >> and to make matters worse, many of the >> input forms do a really, really ugly hack where each time a new item is >> added, instead of preserving state somewhere it's sent back to the client - >> html and all - in a hidden field. This alone makes it nearly impossible

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] proposing Section 508 compliance as requirement for 2.x

2007-04-26 Thread Ed W
Hi > and to make matters worse, many of the > input forms do a really, really ugly hack where each time a new item is > added, instead of preserving state somewhere it's sent back to the client - > html and all - in a hidden field. This alone makes it nearly impossible to > properly protect ag

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] proposing Section 508 compliance as requirement for 2.x

2007-04-26 Thread Ed W
> OK. What we could try out is to have the work area above, and the > menu across the bottom. With CSS, the work area would be a fixed > vertical size and scroll. Without CSS, the work area would drop down > until it ran out. For the majority of forms, this would not be a big > deal, but a lon