Comment 157 for bug 1160365
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| Raphaël Valyi - http://www.akretion.com (rvalyi) wrote Re: [Bug 1160365] Re: [7.0] incorrect handling of contact/companies for invoicing and related purposes | #157 |
On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 5:37 PM, Fabien (Open ERP) <email address hidden> wrote:
> On 14/04/13 20:20, Michael Telahun Makonnen wrote:
> > +1 for partner_id + contact_id
>
> Why not partner_id + commercial_id ? This would be the solution to
> satisfy everyone's need
Because of course it would forces us to change all the code everywhere
where partner_id is used: that is what we call "swapping" the semantic.
This is a lot of very risky work we cannot afford doing for v7.
Instead of the added field is contact_id. Everywhere code that comes from
v6.1 (the vast majority of the code that matters), we can still use
partner_id normally.
The question only becomes where exactly do we add these contact_id fields
and how exactly do we add them (in the ORM automatically, in every class
but then we need collaboration from OpenERP SA and less also ensure we
avoid code duplication like when patching the views) and also where exactly
are the few places with contact_id should be used instead of partner_id in
reports or to send a mail.
Regards.