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

2007-04-27 Thread Chris Travers
Hi David; I appreciate your efforts to clarify the dialog. As always, speaking precisely is vitally important to these endeavors. > I have very rarely raised issue > because I did not want to appear to be too disruptive. With all due respect, this is actually one of the post positive posts as a

[Ledger-smb-devel] Redeveloping the system - was Thoughts on payment handling in 1.4.x

2007-04-27 Thread David Tangye
Oh dear: this is quite long. Sorry, but I had a cup of tea and a think, and decided it is appropriate as is. On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 10:22 -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > ... or I beating > someone into doing it right through team collaboration and positive > reinforcement (2x4, hose, or weed pull

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

2007-04-27 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Chris Travers wrote: > 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 th

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

2007-04-27 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Original Message Subject:Re: [Fwd: [Ledger-smb-devel] Thoughts on payment handling in 1.4.x] Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 06:49:56 -0700 From: David Kawasaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Joshua Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> If I understand

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

2007-04-27 Thread Chris Travers
On 4/27/07, Gerald Chudyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/27/07, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ed W writes: > > > One area though that I think is likely to drop out is that sales orders, > > > sales invoices and sales quotes are all special cases of the same object. > > > > Invoices

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

2007-04-27 Thread Gerald Chudyk
On 4/26/07, David Tangye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 an

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

2007-04-27 Thread Gerald Chudyk
On 4/27/07, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ed W writes: > > One area though that I think is likely to drop out is that sales orders, > > sales invoices and sales quotes are all special cases of the same object. > > Invoices are accounting transactions. Sales orders and quotes are not. >

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

2007-04-27 Thread Chris Travers
On 4/27/07, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ed W writes: > > One area though that I think is likely to drop out is that sales orders, > > sales invoices and sales quotes are all special cases of the same object. > > Invoices are accounting transactions. Sales orders and quotes are not. I

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

2007-04-27 Thread John Hasler
Ed W writes: > One area though that I think is likely to drop out is that sales orders, > sales invoices and sales quotes are all special cases of the same object. Invoices are accounting transactions. Sales orders and quotes are not. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Elmwood, WI USA --

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

2007-04-27 Thread Chris Travers
On 4/27/07, Ed W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > Can I respectfully suggest that you missed the point that David was making? > > Sybase wrote some great DB design books that cover this stuff really > well and no doubt there are other books. But basically: In general, the process is similar

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

2007-04-27 Thread Gerald Chudyk
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

2007-04-27 Thread Ed W
Hi > 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 sure he will > provide some strong feedback on the data model. One of our major > tasks is making the database design follow the relational model > properly. This

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

2007-04-27 Thread Ed W
Hi > I have some ideas about preventing duplicate submissions but nothing > definite yet. > I think you have to just chuck the session ID somewhere on the form and pass that around. There is a rails plugin called something like ActionFlow which looks like a start at this kind of structure (