On 14/07/13 22:46 +0200, Axel Braun wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Am Sonntag, 14. Juli 2013, 15:14:35 schrieb Cédric Krier:
> 
> > > I'm setting up some customer and vendor data in Tryton 2.8, and need some
> > > advice on how to handle them. Not sure that I get the concept right.
> > > 
> > > 1) When creating a 'Company', I can add 'Employees'.
> > > When searching for an employee, all types of parties show up - including
> > > customers and vendors.
> > > It is not very likely that a customer is a employee at the same time (OK,
> > > we got employee-sales in some companies, but not in my case) - can we
> > > filter on employee (means not customer, vendor or own company)?
> > 
> > Employee is a specific Model where you link a company to a party.
> > So it makes no sense to limit the party you can select to existing
> > employee.
> 
> It does - if the party you request does not exist, you can create it. 
> otherwise som 3000 address-records appear.....

I mean *employee* of course you should be able to search over all the
parties to create an employee.

> And employees usually dont require VAT ID and payment terms, etc.

yes they don't require that's why such fields are not required.

> So the 
> generic approach generates IMHO some confusion for 'users'.

It is just about learning.

> > > 2) I have created a customer with an address. As the party does not exist,
> > > I created it (with address). When I return to the address-screen, the
> > > adress is empty. can this be taken from the record I just created?
> > 
> > Don't understand.
> 
> (send a PM for clarification)

Ok, I understand now.
The problem is about creating the target of a many2one field when the
target get the reverse one2many. In this case user can be confused.
It is a known issue: https://bugs.tryton.org/issue3173
As I said in msg13201, I think the best way will be to hide the
one2many.

> > > 3) When I want to create a 'Party associated with sales', this customer is
> > > not presented as potential customer. When I create a new customer there,
> > > I end up with a second dataset. I cant add the customer created under 2)
> > 
> > "Party associated with sales" is just a reporting list. Creating record
> > from there doesn't make the new party associated with sales.
> 
> ...it would make sense to flag a party as customer or vendor via this menu 
> items.

There is no such flag and they will not be added to Tryton base because
it is a wron design, it is the fact that a party buy products that makes
him a customer and it is the fact that the company buy products to a
party that makes him a supplier.

> Nevertheless, at the moment it allows creation of parties at that menu. 
> IMHO it will create some confusion for the 'user'

I agree this could be improved, there is already an issue:
https://bugs.tryton.org/issue746

> From this creation activities I have now multiple Customers with the same 
> name. Is there a way how I can delete those entries?

You can delete them if they are not linked to something that requires
them.

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