Another complex question. Try this: .- Create a particular customer named XX, set his address and data .- Casually this customer is our employe, so create the XX employe and set his (same) data. Try to include a new particular address for this employe, so create one with (same) data. .- Now... XX is our system user, so create the XX user and attach to the employe. .- Now... Go to partner list and deactivate all filters. What you see? There is at less 3 different partner records for our XX named person. It's almost a chaos having same data replied so many times for same information.
My 2cents. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of OpenERP Indian Team, which is subscribed to OpenERP Server. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1151947 Title: Link several addresses on individual partners (not companies) Status in OpenERP Server: Confirmed Bug description: Hello, Thanks to the Fabien's Q&A on help.openerp.com regarding how to have several addresses on partners, I think the situation is clear enough and well explained for companies [0]. However, I still can't find a good way to link several addresses on individual customers, not companies, in a B2C context. I posted a question and got no response [1]. Here is a use case, I'll use it in my hypothesis below. Mr Foo lives at Bar Street 1. He works at Baz Avenue 150 and usually he wants to receive goods at work. I see 4 hypothesis for that in OpenERP 7: 1. I create 2 distinct partners: * Mr Leo Foo at Bar Street 1 * Mr Leo Foo at Baz Avenue 150 They haven't any links between them. Problems: * From a usability point of view, this would be a mess, especially if I have homonyms. I would never be sure what is the main address of Mr Foo and would have difficulties to find his good addresses (even if I set Baz Avenue 150 as 'delivery' address, I would also the 'delivery' addresses of his homonym Mr Foo in the searches). * I would have wrong accounting entries, sometimes on Mr Foo at Bar Street, sometimes on Mr Foo at Baz Avenue Conclusion: It seems to me that this solution is not applicable due to accounting issues. 2. I put the main address of Mr Foo as `is_company`: * Mr Leo Foo at Bar Street 1 is the main record, considered as `is_company`. * Mr Leo Foo at Baz Avenue 150 is a contact of type 'delivery' linked to the Mr Foo company record. We would not have accounting issues, because this is already handled for companies. The searches and usability would be improved over solution 1. Problems: * Mr Foo is not a company! * This would be totally misleading * If any existing or future addons use the field `is_company` to apply some logic which should only be applied for companies, we would be bloody damned with individuals considered as companies Conclusion: It seems to me that this would be a good solution, but with a renaming of the field `is_company` to something more general (and eventually keep a field `is_company` to only keep this information). => too late for v7? 3. This use case is not supported by OpenERP 7 and has to be coded in a community addon. Problems: * We have to be very sure that this problem will be handled in only one way. If a part of the community manages it in one way and an other part in another way, we'll start to see incompatibility between addons (and OpenERP risks issues for migrations too). Conclusion: It would be very surprising because this use case is very basic for B2C. I think that a so 'low level' part of the datamodel should be defined by OpenERP to avoid to compromise higher level addons. A change on theses base models can have an impact on all the other addons (see base_contact). But let's admit this hypothesis is the good one. I'm alright to create a community addon to handle this use case (by the way, this is a prerequisite to synchronize openerp with magento). But I expect a strong guidance from OpenERP, I need to know how this link should be done (add an `is_individual` field like the `is_company` field? Just add the `parent_id` field accessible everytime?) to ensure that the community addon's solution won't go against the current with OpenERP devs. 4. I just missed the way to do that Conclusion: The usability on this point should be improved because no one has ever answered to my question :-) What is the solution advocated by OpenERP and why? Thanks Guewen [0] http://help.openerp.com/question/4341/on-v61-one-partner-could-have-several-addresses-invoicing-delivery-is-this-still-possible-in-v7/ [1] http://help.openerp.com/question/135/how-do-i-attach-different-addresses-on-a-individual-customer/ To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/openobject-server/+bug/1151947/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openerp-india Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openerp-india More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
