Hello @kvvaradha and @poncho1234

I am trying to follow you guys in your wishes.
Let us try to focus on 2.5. Which fields do we need? I will put it on the developer site for 2.5.

Joe

@joe

IMHO the problem with additional fields is its quite niche - not everybody wants them and those that do, want something different;
there are numerous requests all over this forum some for the same thing, some for different.
The latest request is here https://frontaccounting.com/punbb/viewtopic.php?id=9162

In the module I tried to be generic as possible whilst adding what I needed and with the use of custom fields any user could add the data that they require: Which should meet every users needs.

As to what fields you need in 2.5 my wish list is as follows:-

For each of Customer, Branch and Supplier:-
City
Department
Country
Postcode
Document type(Possibly not required for supplier and branch)
Start date
Sector
Class
4 Custom fields for user definition

Item:-
Bin number/Stock location reference
Primary Supplier
Alternative Supplier
Alternative part number
Manufactures part number
Start date
4 Custom fields for user definition

@kvvaradha thoughts please? And if you want to discuss this offline please PM.

Jut a followup on this extension. Just want to know if this will still make to FA.  It would be a useful feature to have as many would have need for custom data field for capturing differing pieces of information. I am jut getting acquainted with FA and looking forward to adopt it.

Sample Code

Yet another alternative: Keep an XML file for extra fields definition in each application - suppliers, items, customers, invoices, etc and keep all such data in a single table with an application name/type field to segregate them.

Actually I am thinking to extend this to sales invoice  and purchase invoice.

@poncho1234 - we have to focus on next major release. I can understand.  Let's try to contribute something to next release.

@Joe  users are eagerly waiting for the next major update. So let's focus on it.

I am trying to follow you guys in your wishes.
Let us try to focus on 2.5. Which fields do we need? I will put it on the developer site for 2.5.

Joe

Also, it seems 'Bin Number' is a definite inclusion in Items.

Its relatively easy to add extra fields to the core, not so easy to include them in FA functionality, but including them now brings all the disadvantages of modifying core files - upgrades, management, etc.

Given the above a module seemed to be the only viable solution. The module I wrote is quite 'bulky' as I tried to incorporate as many additional fields as I thought users would want. (Each user/business would want there own fields) The original 'integrated' version did not work, which leads to the current version using extra pages: The remains bearing not much resemblance to the initial idea :-(

So my thoughts on your mod are - I'd think I'd leave just the custom fields from my module in, 4 for each of customers, Items and suppliers, that way users can label the fields to what they want. You can use any code from the module.

Kvcodes Demo for Custom Fields
Username : custom
Password : 123456

This is my very initial version.  We will enhance and develop it to bring more possible custom fields to custom pages.  Looking for users and developers feedback to enhance it better.

Gist

Screenshots:

Customers
Items