Re: scheduling

On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 12:55 AM, Pongrácz István <..hidden..> wrote:

Regarding the scheduling, I also reported this kind of feature: it must be posted to get scheduled.

>From my point of view, it would be useful to get an ID for a specific scheduled transaction, which identifies the scheduled transaction itself.
Identical ids, like invoice numbers can be generated when the new scheduled transaction posted.

What for? It could happen if a customer modify his subscribe or want to cancel it. For reference everybody can use the ID of the schedule (like an order in normal case) to search and modify/cancel the schedule.
Or not cancel, but add 12 more months subscription.

Just to respond as to the direction we are going (not sure on timeline)....

The SQL-Ledger way was to essentially copy a transaction to a new date and reference. This requires that the transaction be there, and be posted.

This has two major problems. The first is that modifying schedules is a pain, and the second is that you cannot modify the scheduled transaction. For example if costs vary this is a problem. So to address this in 1.3 we have a template transaction add-on which is used by at least one customer in production. However these cannot be scheduled. Template transactions are not on the books and they can be altered at any time.

What we'd really like to do is attach the schedule to templates instead of transactions. However this work is unlikely to be done before 1.4 unless we get significant help at this point. Such an effort would allow, however, transactions to be scheduled, and for changes in the schedule or template to be made at any time.

Best Wishes,

Chris Travers

Bye,
István

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