sql-ledger-users

[SL] Poll - What do you want to see?

[C. D. H. <Du...@Du...>]

After my last post I got to thinking...  It seems (to me) that the same 
items come up over and over on the list.  There is continued development 
of the application (and that's wonderful), but is it providing what 
people are really looking for, wanting, needing?  What are the two 
biggest things everyone wants fixed or added to SQL-Ledger?

My two biggest wants, needs are:  Sales tax flexibility - I need to be 
able to make a taxed customer tax free (on occasion) and vice versa.  My 
next wish would just make my life easier - I wish you could search (on 
POs, Sales Orders and Invoices) by Shipto.

Anybody else?


Dunc

Re: [SL] Poll - What do you want to see?

[Rich S. <rsh...@ap...>]

On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, C. Duncan Hudson wrote:

> After my last post I got to thinking...  It seems (to me) that the same
> items come up over and over on the list.

Dunc,

   SL does very much more than we need, so there's nothing I could contribute
to a wish list.

   However, your observation certainly argues for a wiki where a FAQ, various
HOWTOs, and examples of setting up and using SL in different industries and
companies can be documented by all users.

   This wiki would be a resource to answer the questions that keep repeating
like onions on a cheap hamburger.

Rich

-- 
Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D.               |    The Environmental Permitting
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.        |          Accelerator(TM)
<http://www.appl-ecosys.com>     Voice: 503-667-4517      Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: [SL] Poll - What do you want to see?

[C. D. H. <Du...@Du...>]

Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, C. Duncan Hudson wrote:
>
>   
>> After my last post I got to thinking...  It seems (to me) that the same
>> items come up over and over on the list.
>>     
>
> Dunc,
>
>    SL does very much more than we need, so there's nothing I could contribute
> to a wish list.
>
>    However, your observation certainly argues for a wiki where a FAQ, various
> HOWTOs, and examples of setting up and using SL in different industries and
> companies can be documented by all users.
>
>    This wiki would be a resource to answer the questions that keep repeating
> like onions on a cheap hamburger.
>
>   
Wow!  Lucky you.  Perhaps, then, if SQL-Ledger does absolutely 
everything that you need you might want to suggest new career 
opportunities for Dieter!

Dunc

Re: [SL] Poll - What do you want to see?

[Rich S. <rsh...@ap...>]

On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, C. Duncan Hudson wrote:

> Wow!  Lucky you.  Perhaps, then, if SQL-Ledger does absolutely everything
> that you need you might want to suggest new career opportunities for
> Dieter!

Dunc,

   Why? I'm only one user. You and others can provide him with sufficient
paying work to prevent him from ever retiring.

-- 
Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D.               |    The Environmental Permitting
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.        |          Accelerator(TM)
<http://www.appl-ecosys.com>     Voice: 503-667-4517      Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: [SL] Poll - What do you want to see?

[C. D. H. <Du...@Du...>]

Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, C. Duncan Hudson wrote:
>
>   
>> Wow!  Lucky you.  Perhaps, then, if SQL-Ledger does absolutely everything
>> that you need you might want to suggest new career opportunities for
>> Dieter!
>>     
>
> Dunc,
>
>    Why? I'm only one user. You and others can provide him with sufficient
> paying work to prevent him from ever retiring.
>
>   
Personally, I can't afford the $22,000.00 usd quote to add sales tax 
flexibility to the application - so it won't be me keeping him from 
retiring.

Dunc

Re: [SL] Poll - What do you want to see?

[ATM L. <atm...@km...>]

> After my last post I got to thinking...  It seems (to me) 
> that the same items come up over and over on the list.  There 

SL does all we need and more...  About the only wish I could ever want to
see is perhaps an ISO of a small, secure Linux Distro with SL built in,
capable of updateing Latex etc without breaking itself...  However this
would really only save me about a hour or so once every 3 years when I make
enough changes that I require a reinstall of SL

Re: [SL] Poll - What do you want to see?

[Dr E. L. <el...@li...>]

What I would like to have is a non web front end (perhaps with SQLite3)
as an executable for the Mac, Linux (and Windoze) :-)-O.

Because there would be a market :-)-O

el

on 3/2/07 6:08 PM ATM Logic said the following:
>> After my last post I got to thinking...  It seems (to me) 
>> that the same items come up over and over on the list.  There 
> 
> SL does all we need and more...  About the only wish I could ever want to
> see is perhaps an ISO of a small, secure Linux Distro with SL built in,
> capable of updateing Latex etc without breaking itself...  However this
> would really only save me about a hour or so once every 3 years when I make
> enough changes that I require a reinstall of SL

Re: [SL] Poll - What do you want to see?

[C. D. H. <Du...@Du...>]

ATM Logic wrote:
>> After my last post I got to thinking...  It seems (to me) 
>> that the same items come up over and over on the list.  There 
>>     
>
> SL does all we need and more...  About the only wish I could ever want to
> see is perhaps an ISO of a small, secure Linux Distro with SL built in,
> capable of updateing Latex etc without breaking itself...  However this
> would really only save me about a hour or so once every 3 years when I make
> enough changes that I require a reinstall of SL
>
>   
You're right it wouldn't save you much time, but it's not a bad idea.  
Personally I don't find installing Apache and Postgres very daunting, 
but I found Latex to be a bear.  I'm sure there's alot of people out 
there that would download and use SQL-Ledger if there was an ISO image - 
because what alot of us take for granted as being straight forward can 
be a nightmare to others.  It would be simple to make a turnkey business 
out of it too.

Dunc

Re: [SL] Poll - What do you want to see?

[Joseph A. M. <ja...@jo...>]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

A proper General ledger that is grouped by account and then date by default.

Joe


www.joemaffia.com



C. Duncan Hudson wrote:
> ATM Logic wrote:
>>> After my last post I got to thinking...  It seems (to me)
>>> that the same items come up over and over on the list.  There
>>>    =

>> SL does all we need and more...  About the only wish I could ever want to
>> see is perhaps an ISO of a small, secure Linux Distro with SL built in,
>> capable of updateing Latex etc without breaking itself...  However this
>> would really only save me about a hour or so once every 3 years when I
make
>> enough changes that I require a reinstall of SL
>>
>>  =

> You're right it wouldn't save you much time, but it's not a bad idea. =

> Personally I don't find installing Apache and Postgres very daunting,
> but I found Latex to be a bear.  I'm sure there's alot of people out
> there that would download and use SQL-Ledger if there was an ISO image -
> because what alot of us take for granted as being straight forward can
> be a nightmare to others.  It would be simple to make a turnkey business
> out of it too.
>
> Dunc
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT
> Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share
your
> opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash
> http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=3Djoin.php&p=3Dsourceforge&CID=3D=
DEVDEV
> _______________________________________________
> sql-ledger-users mailing list
> sql...@li...
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sql-ledger-users
>
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

iD8DBQFF6Yf/1Zo2InkR90QRAkRHAJ9iZ6BDFAY02IH/S977qE3RUWcRywCfTblV
9ql3+6i5TX6TxUqOWRGcYco=3D
=3DhlPN
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Re: [SL] Poll - What do you want to see?

[<ma...@hu...>]

> What I would like to have is a non web front end (perhaps with SQLite3)
> as an executable for the Mac, Linux (and Windoze) :-)-O.
>

Funny, but I am working on a command line tool for SL.

I'm curious what interface you expect.

Here's what I am planning:

$ sl ofx2txt feb.ofx | sl txt2gl -a 1060

~/.slrc config (host, user, pass, etc).
~/.sl/coa.txt stores chart of accounts (dumped via psql)
~/.sl/txt2gl.txt map trx names to SL account id's.

I've got the ofx2txt command nearly done.

m

Re: [SL] Poll - What do you want to see?

[Dr E. L. <el...@li...>]

I expect nothing. I take what I get :-)-O

But, again, a standalone program running on WIndoze, Mac and Linux would
be rather nice.



on 3/2/07 10:21 PM ma...@hu... said the following:
>> What I would like to have is a non web front end (perhaps with SQLite3)
>> as an executable for the Mac, Linux (and Windoze) :-)-O.
>>
> 
> Funny, but I am working on a command line tool for SL.
> 
> I'm curious what interface you expect.
> 
> Here's what I am planning:
> 
> $ sl ofx2txt feb.ofx | sl txt2gl -a 1060
> 
> ~/.slrc config (host, user, pass, etc).
> ~/.sl/coa.txt stores chart of accounts (dumped via psql)
> ~/.sl/txt2gl.txt map trx names to SL account id's.
> 
> I've got the ofx2txt command nearly done.

Re: [SL] Poll - What do you want to see?

[<ma...@hu...>]

>
> Anybody else?
>

1. Cash-based financials (e.g., income statement) that don't require
invoice date to be in same period as cash receipt.

2. remote_user and/or openId authentication support.

A distant third: fastcgi support.

m

Re: [SL] Poll - What do you want to see?

[david <da...@ke...>]

On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 09:49 -0500, C. Duncan Hudson wrote:
> After my last post I got to thinking...  It seems (to me) that the same 
> items come up over and over on the list.  There is continued development 
> of the application (and that's wonderful), but is it providing what 
> people are really looking for, wanting, needing?  What are the two 
> biggest things everyone wants fixed or added to SQL-Ledger?
> 
> My two biggest wants, needs are:  Sales tax flexibility - I need to be 
> able to make a taxed customer tax free (on occasion) and vice versa.  My 
> next wish would just make my life easier - I wish you could search (on 
> POs, Sales Orders and Invoices) by Shipto.


Search! If there is a field for it, you should be able to search for it.
It's what computers do best. What's wrong with a search page that lists
every field on the system similar to, or an extension of, the GL report.

Export would be nice - pretty much on any report at all. If you can
report it, I think you should be able to turn it into a spread sheet.
Perhaps a menu item that you click on and it exports the current report.
I know you can cut/paste, but that's really not very slick for a user.

Tax by line item: I'm not on the latest version so perhaps this has been
fixed? Last time I saw a post from Dieter (some time ago) he said that
it wasn't necessary. It IS necessary.

Please don't tell me that I can write a script or use a postgresql
function or do it myself - I'm not a programmer and shouldn't have to
be. I shouldn't have to be a geek either..