Re: [Ledger-smb-users] If we are putting in 1.3 proposals....

2011-06-15 Thread Luke
On Tue, 14 Jun 2011, Chris Travers wrote: > In terms of a document storage add-on, I will send the proposal to > Alvin and anyone else interested along with what I think will be > required to implement various parts of it. Anyone else interested in > contributing to funding it, please let me know

Re: [Ledger-smb-users] If we are putting in 1.3 proposals....

2011-06-14 Thread Chris Travers
In terms of a document storage add-on, I will send the proposal to Alvin and anyone else interested along with what I think will be required to implement various parts of it. Anyone else interested in contributing to funding it, please let me know so I can put you in the loop. What I am thinking

Re: [Ledger-smb-users] If we are putting in 1.3 proposals....

2011-06-13 Thread Chris Travers
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Luke wrote: > On Mon, 13 Jun 2011, Chris Travers wrote: > >> bit.  The largest issue would probably be for displaying the file >> attached to a payment. > > You don't.  That is a user issue.  You provide a download link. Misunderstanding the problem. Currently in

Re: [Ledger-smb-users] If we are putting in 1.3 proposals....

2011-06-13 Thread Luke
On Mon, 13 Jun 2011, Chris Travers wrote: > bit. The largest issue would probably be for displaying the file > attached to a payment. You don't. That is a user issue. You provide a download link. In its purist form, it would be a file upload by post operation, with a file field, and a button

Re: [Ledger-smb-users] If we are putting in 1.3 proposals....

2011-06-13 Thread Luke
Erik For the record, while I don't necessarily disagree with you, that is a *very* old feature request. Me and others have been talking about it since SQL-Ledger days, and have here many times over the years. Luke On Mon, 13 Jun 2011, Erik Huelsmann wrote: > Hi Alvin, > > On Mon, Jun 13, 2

Re: [Ledger-smb-users] If we are putting in 1.3 proposals....

2011-06-13 Thread Chris Travers
BTW two reasons to do this as an add-on: 1) This wouldn't complicate the LedgerSMB 1.3 testing and release cycle. 2) Addons can have their own lifecycle independent of LedgerSMB 1.3, meaning we can release a file_attachment addon 1.1 with new features without waiting for a new major release of 1

Re: [Ledger-smb-users] If we are putting in 1.3 proposals....

2011-06-13 Thread Chris Travers
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Alvin Starr wrote: > One thing I would like to see is the ability to attach binary data files > to things like orders and invoices and payments. First of all this is a great request. Thanks for sharing. Yes, I think this is a needed feature. No I don't think we

Re: [Ledger-smb-users] If we are putting in 1.3 proposals....

2011-06-13 Thread Erik Huelsmann
Hi Alvin, On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Alvin Starr wrote: > One thing I would like to see is the ability to attach binary data files > to things like orders and invoices and payments. > A lot of our invoices have associated files and it would be nice to be > able to keep these associated wit

[Ledger-smb-users] If we are putting in 1.3 proposals....

2011-06-13 Thread Alvin Starr
One thing I would like to see is the ability to attach binary data files to things like orders and invoices and payments. A lot of our invoices have associated files and it would be nice to be able to keep these associated with the generated invoice. We also scan and print copies of all the cheq