[Openledger-developer] How to handle invoicenumbers?

[Klavs K. <kl...@vs...>]

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Hi guys,

Currently SL's way of handling invoicenumbers does NOT work for me. It
does not increment as it should and I have no way of defining a specific
pattern I'd like (f.ex. $year-incnr, $year$xdigitincnr or
$year$month$day$hour$min$sec etc. ).

I was thinking that I'd add a function that gives you the next available
invoicenumber (ie. whatever invoicenumbering scheme you use - +1 :) and
also I'd like to make PostInvoice able to handle this, if the invoicenr.
field is left out, it should automatically assign it the next available
invoicenr.

My reasoning for doing this, is that I currently handle invoicenumbers
in my own scripts - and IMHO this is (again :) the responsibility of the
accounting system - my scripts should not have to care about that for
posting a mere invoice.

I think I'll build the "get next invoicenr." function to use a
openledger.conf file in which you can define the pattern - to begin with
I'll build it to support the sceme I use, which is the $year followed by
a 5 digitnr. in my case (ie. any invoicenumber is padded with zero's to
always be 5 digits). I'll let the digit amount be defineable ofcourse -
probably the printf way.

What do you think? Any ideas to implementing it will be welcome -
otherwise I'll just think of a way to get it rolling when I get to it :)

I was thinking of a $InvoiceNumber variable to be defined in
openledger.conf which would simply be used in printf - and any variables
given in it, should also (somehow) be chosen from a predefined set in,
and defined in openledger.conf.

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Regards,
Klavs Klavsen, GSEC - kl...@vs... - http://www.vsen.dk
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