[Kde-finance-apps] Re: kde-alkimia unique id

[Thomas Baumgart]

Hi,

on Friday 22 July 2011 07:54:46 puneet goyal wrote:

> > Take a look at class QUuid(). I doubt that you want to use this as a
> > (visible)
> > ID in the invoice and the payment. The numbering scheme for printed
> > invoice numbers might differ from locale to locale, but a unique ID does
> > not.
> > 
> > In order to match a transaction to an invoice, you need more than the
> > unique
> > ID. It might be presented wrong in the payment.
> > 
> > But i dont think we will be able to detect the invoice and decompose it
> 
> into the parameters used, because we dont know the algorithm used by quuid
> ( I was not able to find it though).
> I think we will have to make an algorithm of our own so that when financial
> mangager detects it , it get to know some information out of it and starts
> processing after that

Before you start thinking about how to layout the ID, please think about the 
exact process of the invoice/payment handling. Make sure, that the existing 
finance packages can deal with what you suggest. I still don't have the full 
understanding of how this should fit together, or am I just missing something 
here?

BTW: Info about QUuid can be found on eg. 
http://doc.trolltech.com/4.6/quuid.html

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Regards

Thomas Baumgart

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