Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] How willing is ledgersmb to accept custom code for service company?

2007-12-06 Thread David Tangye
On Dec 5, 2007 1:05 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now we change the amount of labor in A1 to L1 = .5 we have to redo over > 10,000 > assemblies by hand or hack the database. Not very appealing. > ... and will probably destroy the data integrity of your system. If a manufacturing process chang

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Re-authentication proposal for LedgerSMB 1.3 (HTTP Auth)

2007-10-03 Thread David Tangye
On 10/3/07, Chris Travers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 10/2/07, David Tangye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 10/3/07, Chris Travers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Perhaps more effort needs to made with the LSMB inst

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Re-authentication proposal for LedgerSMB 1.3 (HTTP Auth)

2007-10-02 Thread David Tangye
On 10/3/07, Chris Travers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Perhaps more effort needs to made with the LSMB installer. I still am not > > running it because it does not install on a standard ubuntu desktop box. > > Agreed, at least as far as Windows goes. But consider Ubuntu. Do you > *really* want

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Re-authentication proposal for LedgerSMB 1.3 (HTTP Auth)

2007-10-02 Thread David Tangye
On 10/3/07, Ashley J Gittins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As I understand it (and I am pretty likely to get this wrong so feel free > to > point that out) the only reason we have to send the user/pass on every > http > request is because of the change to using postgresql to authenticate every > r

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Re-authentication proposal for LedgerSMB 1.3 (HTTP Auth)

2007-10-02 Thread David Tangye
On 10/3/07, Chris Travers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think we should separate the issues of storage and transmission. The > password is always stored at some point in browser memory in plain text (for > example, when it is entered). It is always submitted to the server in plain > text in th

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Re-authentication proposal for LedgerSMB 1.3 (HTTP Auth)

2007-10-02 Thread David Tangye
On 10/3/07, Joshua D. Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anyone who thinks a "user" should be able to install LSMB or PostgreSQL > is frankly, in a fantasy world. > OK I guess all the users that use ubuntu, the biggest distro in linux, must all be in a fantasy world. They just click to install t

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Inventory, COGS, getting it right

2007-09-27 Thread David Tangye
> > Further to what Chris has said, if by 'start from scratch' you mean insert > everything again, I see no reason why you would do that. Just insert > *correcting* records with their appropriate dates. > - This SF.net email is

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Inventory, COGS, getting it right

2007-09-27 Thread David Tangye
Further to what Chris has said, if by 'start from scratch' you mean insert everything again, I see no reason why you would that. Just insert records with their appropriate dates. - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft D

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] SPANISH - LEDGERSMB WEB SITE

2007-09-26 Thread David Tangye
I chose to use Joomla, and have been busy it for the past 6 weeks, so I am not up on specifics of Drupal. I presume that you are happy with the way it drives the LSMB website already? If so, internationalising it sounds like a logical step forward. Hopefully you just load the module and carry right

[Ledger-smb-devel] LSMB fails with Ubuntu (Feisty)

2007-08-27 Thread David Tangye
appears in various places, means I ought to have a C development package of some sort installed. Can anyone please tell me what to do next to fix this? Cheers David Tangye -- The Last Great Frontier is in Your Mind 0-install-lsmb-cpan.err Description: Binary data 0-install-lsmb-cpan.out Descripti

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] For those interested in the CRM/Entity management

2007-06-21 Thread David Tangye
Josh, On reflection, see my previous post about intersects. Your post arrived while I was writing it. I think Chris, you and I are in agreement in this: Invoice addresses cannot be changed. The intersects I described will help ensure that if each address, once linked to almost any entity, invoice

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] For those interested in the CRM/Entity management

2007-06-21 Thread David Tangye
See below. On 6/22/07, Joshua D. Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: David Tangye wrote: > Its not crazy at all. Its correct analysis. And its not necessarily a > case of duplicate data. Its a snapshot of an event whose information is > often represented by the same data values eac

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] For those interested in the CRM/Entity management

2007-06-21 Thread David Tangye
See replies below. Actually, the way it will probably work is that there is a location table which includes all address info, a table handling a many-many relationship of locations to contacts Almost: the intersect we need here is between the Address to Customer intersect (as per your descri

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] For those interested in the CRM/Entity management

2007-06-21 Thread David Tangye
See responses below. On 6/21/07, Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 20 Jun 2007, at 22:57, Ed W wrote: > > I think we are all agreed that snapshotting the invoice is a > requirement. But: > > - lets assume that most invoices contain the same address time and > time again, > - hence we sta

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] For those interested in the CRM/Entity management

2007-06-21 Thread David Tangye
I have followed this thread with amusement. We went through all this 15 years ago, and I am sure others did 15 years before that. The answer is still the same irrespective of the technology du jour. Without boring you all with pages of waffle: 1. In system analysis and design, logical and physic

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] For those interested in the CRM/Entity management

2007-05-30 Thread David Tangye
On 5/31/07, Joshua D. Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, like 'Sell', ie a vendor, or 'Buy' ie a customer. That is what I am > saying. Except that it is not. Sell is a task performed just as Buy is. A vendor or customer is a class of entity. Agreed. I meant to say this, replying to what

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] For those interested in the CRM/Entity management

2007-05-30 Thread David Tangye
On 5/30/07, Chris Travers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ok. Think of an entity as a "legal person" (corporate or natural) and a contact as a "natural person." Yes, I assume that a 'Contact' is a contact for an Entity. So Chris Travers can be the contact for Chris Travers. As a physical design

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] For those interested in the CRM/Entity management

2007-05-29 Thread David Tangye
That seems to be going in the right direction. It would be nice to have comments on the columns, but the usage of most can be guessed by good naming. Two questions: 1. Column "entity_class (not null)" in TABLE "entity": is it something like "current_default/primary_class", whatever that might be?

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

2007-04-29 Thread David Tangye
On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 09:40 -0700, Chris Travers wrote: > Hi Ed; > > > > I can't help wondering if the current Quotes/Order/Invoice model isn't > > slightly too few states for some business. > > > > My model is: [snip] Its a bit of a problem in a way, that the implied business operational model

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

2007-04-29 Thread David Tangye
On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 19:47 -0700, Chris Travers wrote: > Actually, I would slightly quibble with this point. Rather than > define terms precisely (since natural language is descriptive rather > than prescriptive), it is a good idea to discuss what we mean by what > we say and challenge eachother

[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

2007-04-26 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] [Ledger-smb-announce] LedgerSMB 1.2.3 released

2007-04-15 Thread David Tangye
Sorry, now I am confused. The statements below seem contradictory. On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 18:52 -0700, Chris Travers wrote: > No. New company datasets are safe. > > On 4/15/07, David Tangye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 18:28 -0700, Chris Travers wrote

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] [Ledger-smb-announce] LedgerSMB 1.2.3 released

2007-04-15 Thread David Tangye
On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 18:28 -0700, Chris Travers wrote: > If you have a new database (not an upgrade) and you want to bill for > fractional quantities (say, 0.25), run the following queries on your > database: > > alter table invoice alter column qty type numeric; > alter table invoice alter colum

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Default dates again - ex Re: Templates storage

2007-04-14 Thread David Tangye
On Sat, 2007-04-14 at 19:08 -0700, Chris Travers wrote: > The idea of a single global setting for date entry is not a bad one. > Feel free to submit a feature request. OK, done: 1700856 - This SF.net email is sponsored by D

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] New email list announcement

2007-04-14 Thread David Tangye
On Sat, 2007-04-14 at 13:56 -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > Actually I would say that is up to Chris M. If he choses to make it a > public issue, because he feels others are possibly going to be effected > the same way, then that is up to him. > > Further if he wishes to keep it a private matter

[Ledger-smb-devel] Default dates again - ex Re: Templates storage

2007-04-14 Thread David Tangye
On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 13:11 -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > In short: > > Programmers will want the templates on disk. This makes sense. > Non Programmers don't even know what a text editor is. > Our target audience is Non Programmers. That's why I liked the idea of having the value for the data-

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Where we are going with 1.3

2007-04-12 Thread David Tangye
On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 14:54 -0400, Christopher Murtagh wrote (regarding templates): > I'm all for it. Everything that is outside of svn should be in the DB > IMO, because it's not code, it's data. Aren't templates (and C etc header files for example) a bit of a grey area in that they can represen

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Proposed (and tentative) roadmap

2007-03-14 Thread David Tangye
On Sun, 2007-03-11 at 21:38 -0700, Chris Travers wrote: > I have been planning a payroll module, but there is always room for > more help :-). I will post my ideas here. Hi Chris. Your forward plan looked realistic to me, mainly for two reasons: you did not try to include: 1. taxes 2. payroll.

[Ledger-smb-devel] Debian packages and Bruce Hohl Install

2006-12-12 Thread David Tangye
On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 09:05 -0500, Seneca Cunningham wrote: > On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 08:55:04AM -0500, Michael Schultheiss wrote: > > Seneca Cunningham wrote: > > > Hi, I'm the LedgerSMB developer who made the packages. The current > > > packaging is currently a bit on the crude side ... On Thu,

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Moving to a central db

2006-11-05 Thread David Tangye
On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 11:21 -0800, Chris Travers wrote: > Hi Josh; > > That is the basic idea. This is the way it currently works and we > wanted to get the current system stored in the db. And I do have some > customers that need multiple dataset capabilities (for example, a > small business ow