Hello all,

I was able to get a copy of the report from ENDA and I uploaded it to the
SVN repository.  You can download it here: http://is.gd/p7S7

Note: This was written in french, so you may want to edit it in BIRT for
english, but it will give you the search functionality you are looking for.

Ryan

On 3/25/09 11:31, "Ryan Whitney" <[email protected]> wrote:

> This is an often requested feature, it's currently collected in our feature
> train.
> 
> One workaround built by ENDA is to built a BIRT report to do just that. I'll
> see about getting a copy from them and posting it to the community.
> 
> And just as a side note, there's quite a bit of functionality one can build
> into the Mifos application using BIRT reports.  You can't really build in
> any workflow, but there are still a lot of ways you can leverage it to give
> you some of the functionality you may be missing.
> 
> Ryan
> 
> 
> On 3/25/09 11:15, "George Conard" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> FWIW, KEEF (an MFI in Kenya using Mifos) today asked me if it was
>> possible to search on National ID (which it isn't)... seems that a
>> general "search everything" feature would be helpful, not sure of the
>> implications.
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Emily Tucker
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 8:40 AM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [Mifos-users] Problem Related to ID genration
>> 
>> Hi Abhishek,
>> 
>> Great questions:
>> 
>>> Can we have option to search particular thing by our
>>> business
>>> System id 
>> 
>> As you know, certain entities in mifos (centers, groups, clients) have a
>> field for "External ID" where you can enter the ID from your legacy
>> system for cross-referencing purposes.  I don't believe we have this
>> field for loan and savings accounts.  Currently you cannot search on
>> this ID-- but this is a request that has come in before.  This might
>> something that is relatively easy to build into Mifos.
>> 
>>> we can change the logic of ID generation by our Business
>>> system logic.
>> 
>> I know that a user in Nigeria has built functionality to change the way
>> the Mifos generated IDs-- I'm sure he'd be happy to tell you more about
>> his experience.  From what I've heard, it wasn't an easy change.  :-)
>> 
>> It would be helpful to learn more about why you need this
>> functionality-- this may allow us to provide better recommendations for
>> your problem. 
>> 
>> We have one MFI, for example, who is using multiple systems to manage
>> different aspects of their operations.  Each system generates a
>> different user ID-- so they're planning to build a simple external
>> database to act as a client ID mapping database.  Not sure if something
>> like that might be helpful for you....
>> 
>> Emily.  
>> 
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