Invoice Extension, Variable "Order Number" in Kimai ?

[benjicux]

Hello,

the invoice template file has a variable "var.order". The print.php file shows that this order number
is fixed to 05123456.
Is this right so far ?

Is it planned to establish an order number to kimai or do I have to add such a field by myself to
let the invoice extension read the order number from the database to activate order / customer
numbers for use in the invoice ?

Thanks for your help.
Best regards
Benjamin

[ServiusHack]

Hi Benjamin,

the invoice template file has a variable "var.order". The print.php file shows that this order number
is fixed to 05123456.
Is this right so far ?

Yes, that's right.

The invoice extension should be called beta, as there are minor things like that and after all it only works with PDO, not with a native MySQL connection.

Is it planned to establish an order number to kimai or do I have to add such a field by myself to
let the invoice extension read the order number from the database to activate order / customer
numbers for use in the invoice ?

I'm currently not planning to work on this extension. But perhaps I will add a field so you can set the order number. If you implement something like this I would be happy to see it and perhaps add it to the official version.

Best Regards,
Severin Leonhardt

[lang]

I've actually done quite a bit of customizing this extension for my own purposes. I'll go through and try to make it a little more generic and then upload what I've done. I'll warn you, though: I'm not a developer, I'm a mechanical engineer turned patent management consultant, so my code is probably infuriating to real developers.

For the Invoice Number, I simply made a concatenated string using the customer name and date elements. So for example, a January 2010 invoice for customer Acme has an invoice number of "Acme-10-01." Since I only send one invoice per client, per month, this works for my purposes. It would seem that making a sequential number would require adding a DB table, which I've avoided so far in making changes to this extension.