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Hi,
I came across you product in place of nbill which caused me a few issues, I wanted a simple invoicing product such as this, which from forst look - looks like what I am after, however I have a little issue regarding 'contacts'.
I understand the method from creating contacts per joomla user or new user, but am concerned over yet another contact table being created when it does appear to be required.
I have my own component which after processing a transaction, creates an invoices automatically, why do I have to then bind the invoice to a user in a seperate table, surely it makes sense to link to that of the exisiting joomla/community builder account, is there a simple why to remove the feature of having a seperate table. I don't mind recoding this to solve the problem but that just adds another thing to look after.
I havent looked at the coding as yet - any pointers??
Regards
Phil
I came across you product in place of nbill which caused me a few issues, I wanted a simple invoicing product such as this, which from forst look - looks like what I am after, however I have a little issue regarding 'contacts'.
I understand the method from creating contacts per joomla user or new user, but am concerned over yet another contact table being created when it does appear to be required.
I have my own component which after processing a transaction, creates an invoices automatically, why do I have to then bind the invoice to a user in a seperate table, surely it makes sense to link to that of the exisiting joomla/community builder account, is there a simple why to remove the feature of having a seperate table. I don't mind recoding this to solve the problem but that just adds another thing to look after.
I havent looked at the coding as yet - any pointers??
Regards
Phil
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0hello Phil,
I'm not sure to understand what you mean exactly. do you mean you don't need the J! Invoices contact table? in our product, every invoice belongs to a J!invoices contact, which contains basic contact info and, most importantly, it's linked to a joomla (or community builder) user.
what is what you don't need? -
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0Sorry for not being clearer:
I understand the relationship between the invoice an contact tables, what I want to do is simple apply the invoices to a specific user which will always exist, so there is no need to work with new users, so thereforw it makes sense to link the invoices to that in the users or CB table(s) as opposed to having a seperate table.
At the end of the day its simple inner joins...
I've looked through the code and seems simple enough to sort myself, but I dant want to start hacking around with it. -
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0ok, I understand what you mean.. you want to link invoice to joomla contact instead of invoices contact
the way it is:
invoice -> invoice contact -> joomla user
the way you want:
invoice -> joomla (or CB) user
well as you say this is not directly possible... you would need some custom coding for that. the thing is in the invoice template the contact info is used (name, company, address...) while if you were using only joomla users you won't have any info (just the name, that's all.. and the email) -
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it's in the model file mainly, /models/invoice.phpYour Reply
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