Re: [Ledger-smb-users] Clickable Part Numbers

2009-02-19 Thread Chris Travers
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 9:54 PM, Stroller wrote: \ > > Ah! But my dual Scottish and Lancastrian heritage requires me to bill > the customer for said petty item (which might equally be an obscure > BNC network cable of a type which I'm never going to see again) so my > concern is having some part n

Re: [Ledger-smb-users] Clickable Part Numbers

2009-02-19 Thread Ed W
beamends wrote: > > The ability to alter the description is quite important here - for some > reason that I wouldn't like to speculate on customers often require the > description to be vague, such as "Lorry Parts" ;-) > But often the partcode gives this away also, hence the need to alter both.

Re: [Ledger-smb-users] Clickable Part Numbers

2009-02-19 Thread Ed W
Chris Travers wrote: > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 2:44 AM, Ed W wrote: > >> Jeff Kowalczyk wrote: >> >>> IIRC, the misfeature of the current 1.2 UI is that if the user edits the >>> part number for an instantiated line item, >>> >> I think the point of this is that different companies

Re: [Ledger-smb-users] Clickable Part Numbers

2009-02-19 Thread beamends
On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 21:24 -0800, Chris Travers wrote: > I do a similar thing FWIW. > > > > I suspect this usage is "wrong" and I think I have more recently just > > left the description as "miscellaneous item" and added "binder" or > > "stationary" or whatever in the item notes, but since the

Re: [Ledger-smb-users] Clickable Part Numbers

2009-02-18 Thread Stroller
On 19 Feb 2009, at 05:24, Chris Travers wrote: >> ... >> I suspect this usage is "wrong" and I think I have more recently just >> left the description as "miscellaneous item" and added "binder" or >> "stationary" or whatever in the item notes, but since the time I >> started using SQL-Ledger the f

Re: [Ledger-smb-users] Clickable Part Numbers

2009-02-18 Thread Chris Travers
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Stroller wrote: > > On 17 Feb 2009, at 03:22, Jeff Kowalczyk wrote: >> ... >> IIRC, the misfeature of the current 1.2 UI is that if the user edits >> the >> part number for an instantiated line item, it does not search for a >> new >> part in that lineitem slot. I

Re: [Ledger-smb-users] Clickable Part Numbers

2009-02-18 Thread Stroller
On 17 Feb 2009, at 03:22, Jeff Kowalczyk wrote: > ... > IIRC, the misfeature of the current 1.2 UI is that if the user edits > the > part number for an instantiated line item, it does not search for a > new > part in that lineitem slot. I think the user can even save the > document > with an

Re: [Ledger-smb-users] Clickable Part Numbers

2009-02-18 Thread Chris Travers
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 2:44 AM, Ed W wrote: > Jeff Kowalczyk wrote: >> >> IIRC, the misfeature of the current 1.2 UI is that if the user edits the >> part number for an instantiated line item, > > > I think the point of this is that different companies will use different > part numbers for the sa

Re: [Ledger-smb-users] Clickable Part Numbers

2009-02-18 Thread Ed W
Jeff Kowalczyk wrote: > > IIRC, the misfeature of the current 1.2 UI is that if the user edits the > part number for an instantiated line item, I think the point of this is that different companies will use different part numbers for the same item. The idea is that you can set these in the ite

Re: [Ledger-smb-users] Clickable Part Numbers

2009-02-16 Thread Jeff Kowalczyk
Richard wrote: > I wonder if it would be possible to make the (Part) Number field in > Invoices and Quotations link to the Part record? The requirement is that > when creating them, particularly a Quote, I often need to put a part on > order, or check that it already is, and this is quite cumbersom