That's a good point Jacopo. It seems like in a lot of places the
account code has more meaning than the account name since the account
code often implies the accounts place in the hierarchy of accounts,
there can be subtle differences between accounts that are not well
represented in the names, and just like we do with things like Jira
issue numbers once you refer to it a few times it is easier to
remember the code than it is to remember the name.
I guess the most important point for a drop-down is seeing the
accounts in their normal order, with hierarchy and all, which is what
you get when sorted by the accountCode.
Anyway, +1 for changing it back... or perhaps not exactly back but to
something like:
${accountCode}-${accountName} [${glAccountId}]
and remove both entity-order-by elements that are there now, and add
one for "accountCode". The reason for this is that currently
glAccountId is always the same as accountCode for the OOTB GlAccounts,
but that may not always be the case for people and in fact the point
of having an accountCode that is not a primary key is so that it can
be changed over time.
-David
On Jun 28, 2009, at 8:51 AM, Jacopo Cappellato wrote:
Are we sure that this is the best way to go? Usually chart of
accounts are prepared using special conventions for account id (i.e.
"accountCode"); see for example how the demo data is organized.
I think it is important to keep that order; also, most of the time,
accountants already know the account codes and use them instead of
the descriptions.
Thoughts?
Jacopo
On Jun 28, 2009, at 2:37 AM, [email protected] wrote:
Author: ashish
Date: Sun Jun 28 08:37:58 2009
New Revision: 789074
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=789074&view=rev
Log:
Trying to make Accountant life easy.
Its easy to find general ledger from alphabet instead of number.
Modified:
ofbiz/trunk/applications/accounting/widget/GlobalGlAccountsForms.xml
Modified: ofbiz/trunk/applications/accounting/widget/
GlobalGlAccountsForms.xml
URL:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/ofbiz/trunk/applications/accounting/widget/GlobalGlAccountsForms.xml?rev=789074&r1=789073&r2=789074&view=diff
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--- ofbiz/trunk/applications/accounting/widget/
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GlobalGlAccountsForms.xml Sun Jun 28 08:37:58 2009
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</field>
<field name="parentGlAccountId">
<drop-down allow-empty="true">
- <entity-options key-field-name="glAccountId"
entity-name="GlAccount" description="[${glAccountId}] $
{accountName}-${accountCode}">
+ <entity-options key-field-name="glAccountId"
entity-name="GlAccount" description="${accountName} [$
{glAccountId}]-${accountCode}">
+ <entity-order-by field-name="accountName"/>
<entity-order-by field-name="glAccountId"/>
</entity-options>
</drop-down>
