What is the JobCards script called from SelectCustomer.php

[andrewgaluski]

There is an option when viewing a Customer/Debtor (In the "Transactions" section) called Job Cards. It points to JobCards.php but that doesn't exist in the codebase?
Interested to know if this is somebody's custom development and what it does (mostly from an interest perspective).

[timschofield]

Hi Andrew, This was written by Heinrich Steuber (aka mrsolar) back in 2012. Not sure why, or by whom it was removed. I can send you a copy by email for you to look at if you want?

Tim

[andrewgaluski]

Awesome - would love to see what it does.

Also, since I have you. DO you consider a Contract to be like a Job you are bidding on and then delivering? Like a buildout or a consulting gig? I Notice it brings together items and misc charges and uses work order to gather the costs and then an order to collect the revenue. Did you write this and if so, can you give some example use cases you had for it. It is similar to why I was interested in what a JobCard script did.

[timschofield]

I'll send it today. The email address I have is the resmart one, is that still valid?

The contracts system was written by @PhilDaintree and there is a fairly compreensive manual page he wrote - https://github.com/timschofield/webERP/blob/master/doc/Manual/ManualContracts.html

I always used it as a way of aggregating all the costs of a potential customer project, with a view to producing a quotation, so it was primarily a quoting tool, and then a method to convert that into a sales order.

Tim

[andrewgaluski]

andrew.galuski@gmail.com

[timschofield]

Sent!

[dalers]

Heinrich Steuber (aka mrsolar) back in 2012. Not sure why, or by whom it was removed.

Is it possible JobCards.php was never included in webERP? I searched the repo using the GitHub UI but it semed a file with that name had never been committed although it was linked in SelectCustomer.php. I also checked out the repo at the Jan 1, 2013 commit and did not find JobCards.php.

It certainly seems the script could have benefit. What is the legal status of the file? Can it be include webERP? Can you explain the purpose to me and I can create an equivalent? (white-box copying).

Imho webERP should be a "no-batteries-required" system, and if a script is referenced in the code then it should be included - or at least a template that I could adapt.

[andrewgaluski]

Upon review of the AQL and PHP Tim sent me, I don't see anything here that anybody is 'missing out on'. My recommendation is to remove the call to it from SelectCustomer.php and move on. I never used, saw or even knew about this script or the call that failed and I started using it in 2013. Looks like a task checklist for a customer of some sort. I have the SQL and the main PHP but there are calls to functions that do not exist in the coed base either.

[dalers]

Looks like a task checklist for a customer of some sort.

The filename infers to me physical job cards on a job board e.g. in a machine shop or other fabricator, presumably to organize work on the shop floor for a particular customer.

[dalers]

Issue #872 created to specifically remove the invalid link from SelectCustomer.php.

General discussion of whether or not a Job Board / Job Card feature has benefit can continue here (but regardless of whether there might be a bnefit, the link to a nonexistant JobCard.php still needs removing).