On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Luke <account...@lists.tacticus.com> wrote: > On Sun, 19 Jun 2011, Erik Huelsmann wrote: > >> the check marks in the screen say "Include in selection list"; a user >> might deselect the check marks, resulting in the above logic to >> conclude that the account is no longer a tax account. The conclusion >> is incorrect of course. > > For sanity's sake, those checkmarks should revert to unchecked, and the > properties not be saved, if the tax checkbox is not selected. > > If it's not selected as a tax account, it shouldn't be permitted to appear > in tax dropdowns. > That will prevent accidentally selecting it for dropdowns, but forgetting > to mark it as a tax account. > >> On gTalk, we agreed the best course of action is to add a >> characteristic to the account's 'account' record to say it's a tax >> account. When that check mark is selected, there should also be a row >> in the 'tax' table which describes the calculation rules to be >> applied. We should probably deny changing the 'tax' check mark after >> the account has been posted to though [if we really want that, I >> should look into triggers in the database to achieve that goal; no >> idea off hand how to arrange that denial]. > > Why? > > I mean, I know it would be kind of nonsensical to uncheck that box after > the fact, but if for some reason someone really wanted to, maybe they > should be able to. > > So I'll ask the question: is there any conceivable reason why someone > might want to uncheck a tax account?
Export sales. Years ago I looked at buying something while I was in Europe. Local purchasers paid 18% tax but because I was shipping the item directly out of country the tax was 0%. Darald > > The only one I can think of, is someone wanting to temporarily prevent > that tax from being calculated or included. > I don't know why you'd want to do that, either, but I don't know > everything everyone might need to do under unusual circumstances. > > Luke > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced content > authoring tool. Experience the power of Track Changes, Inline Image > Editing and ensure content is compliant with Accessibility Checking. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/ephox-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Ledger-smb-devel mailing list > Ledger-smb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ledger-smb-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced content authoring tool. Experience the power of Track Changes, Inline Image Editing and ensure content is compliant with Accessibility Checking. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ephox-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Ledger-smb-devel mailing list Ledger-smb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ledger-smb-devel
