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Re: Plan for refactoring user information



This is independant from the contact management refactoring that is
also going into 1.3, and is also happening along the same lines.  For
security and logical reasons, the employees and external contacts are
kept separately in this voew.  But the structures are fairly similar.

Best Wishes,
Chris Travers

On 3/5/07, Ashley J Gittins <..hidden..> wrote:
On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Chris Travers wrote:
> Hi all;
>
> I am looking at reactoring user information in 1.3.  Here is my basic
> proposal:
>
> 1)  Users are connected to three other tables:  employee (for HR
> information), preferences (for their own preferences), and locations
> (for business location).

Is there any benefit to (loosely) integrating users and clients/contacts? I am
thinking of cases where one might want to allow a client limited access to
the system so that they can view their account data, check their order status
and query inventory. I seem to remember another project using a similar setup
for selling manuals. ;-)

I think I recall some discussion on working on CRM-type functionality, perhaps
expanding the "people" and "companies" concept a bit further so that users
are people too might be worth considering.

Then again, doing so might complicate things to the point where nothing will
ever get done, or we end up with something so "great" that no human could
possibly ever deploy it (compiere, anyone?) so feel free to point out why it
would be a bad idea.

--
Regards,
        Ashley J Gittins
        web:    http://www.purple.dropbear.id.au
        jabber: ..hidden..

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