On 2012-03-29, at 4:23 PM, Ramsey Gurley wrote:

> More than one way to skin a cat here.  I'd probably just set up a wizard.
> 
> step 1, choose a practice with an ERD2WEditToOneRelationship that filters the 
> list to only practices with billables that have no invoice.
> step 2, choose billables form a filtered list for that practice with an 
> ERD2WEditToManyRelationship component.

Can you use information entered in Step one to inform step two?

> step 3, edit invoice date
> validate and save accordingly
> 
> Ramsey
> 
> 
> On Mar 29, 2012, at 3:20 PM, Paul Hoadley wrote:
> 
>> Hi Ramsey,
>> 
>> On 30/03/2012, at 2:21 AM, Ramsey Gurley wrote:
>> 
>>> On Mar 29, 2012, at 2:31 AM, Paul Hoadley wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Anyway, the subject above is probably a misnomer: I'm not trying to create 
>>>> particularly complex objects, but I am trying to do something outside 
>>>> CRUD, which is pretty much all I've ever done with D2W before.  In the 
>>>> model, a Billable object has an optional to-one relationship to Invoice.  
>>>> When I create a Billable, it initially has no related Invoice.  Later I 
>>>> will create an Invoice for a client, and collect together some set of 
>>>> Billables, and the relationship is created at that time.  And that's the 
>>>> bit I need a pattern for: Invoice creation.  Billable also has a mandatory 
>>>> relationship to Practice (i.e., a client), and a startTime timestamp.  
>>>> When I go to create an Invoice, I'd give the Invoice a date and select a 
>>>> Practice, and then I want to add, say, all of the Billables that (a) 
>>>> belong to no other Invoice, (b) point to the same Practice, and (c) have a 
>>>> startTime that falls before the new Invoice.date.
>>> 
>>> Well, you can just set the practice, the invoice date, and then save 
>>> changes. In Invoice.willInsert() fetch the billables and add them to the 
>>> relationship just before the save takes place. :-)  Or is that too 
>>> automatic?
>> 
>> It's more automatic than I was thinking, but it sounds alright.  Say if I 
>> wanted to review the list of Billables before saving, though, what would you 
>> do then?
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Paul Hoadley
>> http://logicsquad.net/
>> 
>> 
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