Hi, The Open Labs Team has recently submited a port of the OpenERP module subscription[1]. Thanks for the submition.
I would like to start this thread to talk about the usage of this module (not
the coding part).
From my experience, the subscription module look like a good idea but in
practice I never succeed to use it in real business case. The main issue is
because there is no business logic in this module. Here is an example about a
case I wanted to solve with subscription:
The target was a *real* subscription for a rent. So the idea was to create
a subscription (from the module) on an invoice.
The first issue was that we must create a first invoice to be the template
so etheir it is a draft invoice that must never be confirm or it is the
first invoice and it will not be included in the subscription duration.
The second was that the subscription object didn't get enough fields to
record business requirement (partner, contract, condition etc.)
The third is the invoice template has not information that it is used for
subscription so somebody could change it without knowing the consequences.
So my thought was that we should not use it but create a real subscription
module (at the business level) that get all the information to create an
invoice at the specific frequency.
Is there any useful usage for such module instead of having business modules?
PS: don't forget that the framework already allow to easily duplicate a
record.
[1] http://codereview.appspot.com/1746048/show
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