[Erp5-dev] erp5_trade - copy/paste - causality - error or design?

[Jean-Paul Smets]

Le lundi 14 mai 2007, Shresth K a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> I was trying the purchase module and encountered something which I found
> a bit buggy(or rather I think so).
>
> PO - Purchase Order
> PPL - Purchase Packing List
>
> All works fine until I copy/paste a PPL that has been created as a result
> of a confirmed PO. In this case the causality of the newly pasted PPL
> instead of being reset to
> causality/purchase_packing_list_module/newPPLid, it remains as
> causality/purchase_order_module/confirmedPOid .

I see no problem in this behaviour. The user might want for example to use 
copy/paste to create a new PPL which is considered as caused by the same PO 
as the one which the existing PPL is caused by. I see a use case for this : 
send some extra material to the customer which he did not order, in a 
separate PPL and as a kind of gift, within the same trade context as the 
PO.

> As a result when we look at the related objects for the PO, we get all
> the PPLs, including those not/falsely related to it.
>
> This definitely looks like a bug until one of you may confirm otherwise
> that there is some method behind this madness. ;-)
>
> If you can confirm the same, I shall try to dabble and try fixing it.

There is nothing to fix for me. If the user does not want the new PPL to be 
caused by the existing PO, he can set the causality field to empty.

JPS.

>
> Regards,
> Shresth