Re: Intended behavior with 2 departments

[Luke <..hidden..>]

On Sat, 27 Feb 2010, Chris Travers wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Luke <..hidden..> wrote:
> > Departments newbie here...
> >
> > What is the intended behavior when orders with different departments set,
> > are consolidated?
>
> Good question.  I have no idea off the top of my head.

Comforting.;-)

> We need to rethink this more carefully for 1.4.  Feedback would be welcome.

So 1.3 does whatever (still unknown) 1.2 does?
Whatever that is, it is most likely not what one wants.

The only thing I can think of, is causing departments to be associated 
with line items alo projects.

Force grouping by department, and reset running numbers within a 
departmental section of an order or invoice.

1 department = no change from current behavior.

more than 1 = For invoice and order output, use multiple sections, headed 
by the department.

For financial tracking, on a full payment, divide appropriately by line 
item into departments.  For a partial payment...go fish.:(  I have no idea 
how to handle a partial payment.  At least, not any that has any logic 
behind it.  I suppose you could pop up an apportion-by-department screen 
when entering payments, but that doesn't sound like something that goes 
well with the workflow.

Luke