This is independant from the contact management refactoring that is also going into 1.3, and is also happening along the same lines. For security and logical reasons, the employees and external contacts are kept separately in this voew. But the structures are fairly similar.
Best Wishes, Chris Travers On 3/5/07, Ashley J Gittins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Chris Travers wrote: > > Hi all; > > > > I am looking at reactoring user information in 1.3. Here is my basic > > proposal: > > > > 1) Users are connected to three other tables: employee (for HR > > information), preferences (for their own preferences), and locations > > (for business location). > > Is there any benefit to (loosely) integrating users and clients/contacts? I am > thinking of cases where one might want to allow a client limited access to > the system so that they can view their account data, check their order status > and query inventory. I seem to remember another project using a similar setup > for selling manuals. ;-) > > I think I recall some discussion on working on CRM-type functionality, perhaps > expanding the "people" and "companies" concept a bit further so that users > are people too might be worth considering. > > Then again, doing so might complicate things to the point where nothing will > ever get done, or we end up with something so "great" that no human could > possibly ever deploy it (compiere, anyone?) so feel free to point out why it > would be a bad idea. > > -- > Regards, > Ashley J Gittins > web: http://www.purple.dropbear.id.au > jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Ledger-smb-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ledger-smb-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Ledger-smb-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ledger-smb-devel
