ayanova/devdocs/todo.txt

@@ -185,6 +185,49 @@ todo: Changes to allow in place updates of server:
 
 CURRENTLY DOING: Contract
 
+Contract general notes / changes
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+Overview
+	V7 contracts did this:
+		Limit rates that can be selected
+		apply a discount to all parts selected for that contract in effect	
+
+	V8 contracts need to do this:
+
+Contracts are never tied directly to an object they affect other than the Customer or Headoffice with a foreign key link
+	workorders should never be reliant on the existance of a contract but rather just have a contract applied to them for example
+	
+Need rates picklists to support criteria of contract rates only for selection
+	perhaps server supplies which contract id is in effect and limit to rates 
+	then client uses variant to say "limittocontractid:xx" when fetching rate lists or other contract restricted items
+
+Markup / Markdown / Discount
+	v7 can only have discount % but we now want:
+	Discount % off price
+	Markup on cost to price
+	Markup on price
+
+Contract affected fields
+	in a wo or other object a contract should only affect adjacent fields, never the primary field like price or cost
+	In this way a contract can be rescinded off a workorder when a customer is changed (required feature) and it's easy to update it
+	without breaking anything
+
+Contract applied field
+	objects with contract that affects then should seperately have a contract name field for contract applie
+	this supports not directly linking the contract but rather seeing it as an object that is applied to another object, 
+	not linked to it.  Can apply, unapply, delete contract and no affect on primary wo or other object
+
+TAGS
+	in v7 contracts could be set to apply to all parts or none
+	in v8 need finer control so:
+	Contract needs selectable tags for any aspect to apply
+	Discount / markup etc parts / rates
+		So, in practice like in v7 you set a discount for all parts but then you can also on the same line restrict it to specific part tags and select tags right there
+		The server then applies the discount based on whether the parts are tagged or not if that's the case in it's bizactions
+
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+		then the picklist can be supplied the variant for contract id which pulls the contract, finds the tags and then populates the picklist with the extra tag search