On 01/06/13 19:18 +0200, Albert Cervera i Areny wrote:
> A Dissabte 01 Juny 2013 09:53:52, Cédric Krier va escriure:
> > On 01/06/13 02:07 +0200, Albert Cervera i Areny wrote:
> > > There's something in the workflow of opportunities that I think could be
> > > improved. I don't think that the end of the workflow should create a
> > > sale. The reason is that most probably, during the sale process several
> > > quotations will already have been sent to the party.
> > 
> > The opportunity is the quotations.
> 
> From my POV the opportunity is the place where commercial information is 
> collected during all the sale process and should not end when creating the 
> first quotation.

Why ?

> I checked with other applications (SugarCRM and vTiger) and they use the 
> Opportunity concept the same way. They even allow creating quoationts from 
> the 
> opportunity form.

That's clearly a bad design.

> If that should not be the usage, how would you manage the sale pipeline that 
> managers need? I mean, the module already provides good reports (per 
> employee, 
> month and employee&month) but if those don't reflect the current state of 
> sales 

no, it is the state of opportunity.

> that are in the quotation phase we're missing a lot of information in cases 
> where several quotations need to be sent to the customer. Also the sale may 
> be 
> lost at that point.

Don't understad.

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Cédric Krier

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