Discussion:
[Citrusdb-users] custom importer (and more). any interest?
Matthias Šubik
2012-08-22 08:23:56 UTC
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Hello,
we are in the process of testing citrusdb for our administration needs.
In this evaluation, we are building a customized importer script, based on the importnew.php, because we need to import things as the sign-up date (which is obviously in the past), and a cancelation date, as we want to have old customers in the database as well.

Is there any interest in this modified importer? If yes I would be motivated to write it less hackish.

I also might be tempted to introduce changes, so the start date of a service (or a sign-up date) is in the future, as this affects the billing cycle, if we have paper based sign up, and a later installation date.

Also, as we are based in Vienna, Austria (Europe), my colleague and I might need to change a few things, to make the tax / tax exempt part fitting to the european system of VAT deduction. As this changes are primarily orientated on our company, we could discuss here (or in private e-Mail) how this changes are interesting for the project.

For the duration of our testing (if it fits our business) we would maintain the changes as a patch on top of the upstream distribution, but If we adopt citrusdb for longer, we would obviously interested in getting them integrated upstream.

Anybody feels interested in this?

ok, back to work.
Matthias


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A: Yes.
Q: Are you sure?
A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?
Paul Yasi
2012-08-25 14:45:48 UTC
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I wrote a custom importer for my data back when I moved it out of my
previous system, being CUSTOM though, I don't know if it makes any
sense to release it since it was very specific to the format that my
data was coming from.

Unless there are popular customer databases that people are importing
and exporting from then I think everyone it kinda on their own in this
regard.

Paul

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 4:23 AM, Matthias Šubik
Post by Matthias Å ubik
Hello,
we are in the process of testing citrusdb for our administration needs.
In this evaluation, we are building a customized importer script, based on the importnew.php, because we need to import things as the sign-up date (which is obviously in the past), and a cancelation date, as we want to have old customers in the database as well.
Is there any interest in this modified importer? If yes I would be motivated to write it less hackish.
I also might be tempted to introduce changes, so the start date of a service (or a sign-up date) is in the future, as this affects the billing cycle, if we have paper based sign up, and a later installation date.
Also, as we are based in Vienna, Austria (Europe), my colleague and I might need to change a few things, to make the tax / tax exempt part fitting to the european system of VAT deduction. As this changes are primarily orientated on our company, we could discuss here (or in private e-Mail) how this changes are interesting for the project.
For the duration of our testing (if it fits our business) we would maintain the changes as a patch on top of the upstream distribution, but If we adopt citrusdb for longer, we would obviously interested in getting them integrated upstream.
Anybody feels interested in this?
ok, back to work.
Matthias
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A: Yes.
Q: Are you sure?
A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?
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