HI Florian, That seems to be a fairly acceptable approach.
Best regards, Pierre Smits ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com> OFBiz based solutions & services OFBiz Extensions Marketplace http://oem.ofbizci.net/oci-2/ On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 11:59 AM, Montalbano Florian < [email protected]> wrote: > Thanks again ! I'm glad and impressed by the quick answers and their > thoughtful content ! > > To respect the generic solution, maybe we could start with the possibility > to bill hours of all the sub-projects of a project in one invoice. > In the "Project" component, there already is a "sub-project" relation and > you can even list the actual hours of every sub-projects of this project. > But you can't bill the hours spent on the sub-projects from the 'father' > project. > > Would allowing this billing be generic enough ? > The result would be : > - If I'm on the 'father' project and I select the tab "billing", I could > create an invoice with all the hours reported/approved of the sub-projects > - If I'm on a sub-project, I could still "bill" the hours specific to this > project and have one invoice by sub-project > > This would be for the "Project" component only (I'm completely letting > aside the crossing Scrum/Project for this subject) > > Have a nice day, > > Florian Montalbano > > > Le 13/07/2016 11:37, Pierre Smits a écrit : > >> Hi Florian, >> >> Yes, It is fairly common - across the various industry sectors - that >> framework agreements dictate that combined invoices will be delivered. >> E.g. >> in the logistic services where the LSP provides a monthly aggregated >> service invoice for al the transport orders they have executed. Or in the >> Professional services sector with respect of secondment. Even in B2B trade >> sectors this happens. >> >> Now if you can come up with a generic solution that would be acceptable as >> a baseline, then this could be introduced and included as a new feature or >> enhancement of the accounting component. This would surely increase the >> appeal of OFBiz... >> >> If you feel you can, why don't create a JIRA issue, solicit support and >> help getting that resolved. >> >> Best regards, >> >> >> >> Pierre Smits >> >> ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com> >> >> OFBiz based solutions & services >> >> OFBiz Extensions Marketplace >> http://oem.ofbizci.net/oci-2/ >> >> On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 11:14 AM, Taher Alkhateeb < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Florian, >>> >>> My personal opinion on this would be that this is a customization that is >>> probably better not to introduce directly to the framework. Probably many >>> customers require many different variations on billing. So this is a >>> place >>> where an infinite amount of variations can happen right? >>> >>> So I would suggest to you to work on SECAs to wire up the invoicing to >>> your >>> liking. This is the easiest way I can think of that has minimal >>> intervention on the code without digging into too much detail. >>> >>> I hope this is useful. >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 12:07 PM, Montalbano Florian < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>>> I have a client who wants only one invoice for the several projects we >>>> have with him. >>>> So, I'm trying to create an invoice from the hours spent on a project >>>> managed in the "Project" component and from the hours spent on a project >>>> managed in the "Scrum" component. >>>> >>>> On the one hand, the billing from the two components seems close and I >>>> >>> was >>> >>>> wondering if there was a way to create a project including the two other >>>> (as sub-project) to then bill all the hours registered in the same >>>> >>> invoice. >>> >>>> On the other hand, it feels like the client asks for something not that >>>> standard with this and maybe I should find a way to "merge" the two >>>> invoices instead. >>>> >>>> What are you thoughts on this subject ? >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Have a nice day, >>>> >>>> Florian Montalbano >>>> >>>> >>>> >
