Payroll Plugin

[Malcolm]

I downloaded and installed PayRoll. When it starts it looks for
C:\TCash3 ..... Unfortunately (for me) I installed into Drive
D:\TCash3 .....

How do I change the drive reference ?? Edit the Registry ?

[Ettienne Du Plessis]

Hi malcom

Yes there is a problem when you open it from a current set of books.

The workaround
1.Open TC do not open a set of books.
2.Go to plugins and call EasyPayroll.
3.It will prompt for a set of books. Select A set of books and you should be
fine


Hope this helps. We will fix it in the next release.
regards
Ettienne Du Plessis

PDSol Consulting
TurboCash Specialists
(The FREE accounting package)
Cell :073 002 5877
E-mail :e...@pds.za.net
Web : http://www.pds.za.net

[Philip Copeman]

The two big things for me in the Payroll now are :

The Grid
The Plugin Standard

The Grid
I have scoured the Net fro an Open Source Grid and there aren't any. Scalabrium offer us the best alterenative. His grid is free but not Open Source. Whiel he seems na affablre fellow (Dave) you can never trust the tollgater metality that gets to work at noght when programmers dream. So we can proceed now, and I guess that is the best option that we ahve, but mark my words every step we take towards this si a step that buries us.Fo now I can see no other way forward. I am in agreement with Ettien that we don nto wqatn to have to wrote our own grid - it is a prject in itself.

The Plugin Standard
I keep comming back to the fact that TurboCASH came out of a garage and when we designed anbd planned it, we didn;pt do so with t team the sisze that we now ahve in mind. Even the PLugin idea ia sloppy. But there are sinme proncipoles

1) The plugin must not look like you have "left" TurbpCASH. It must knwo whjat set of books is current. You need to over come the problem of the user having to create the extra database fiels. I think these must be putinto aseparate directoru :

c:\tcash3\SETOFBOOK\Payroll

2) The blue stripe grid is out it must follow the pastel struture of Windows XP. Please include only the attached colors in anything that you do..



3) You have to let go of the Delphi Style Database navigator. Add use our icon based structure. YOu are gogint ot need to incorporate som objects from TurboCASH like the new search screeen.

4) Put your "Setup stuff away. It si too prominent for somethign athat is only getting used once.

5) taek our Batch entry screen as the example and our INvocie entry esecreen as the exampl from which to copy.

6) Note the use of XP MENu and NAtive XP commands

[Eyes on Site]

Background :

The TurboCASH Shop has a built in calender with BUY NOW links for your seminars.

Use it to advertise your seminars and as a paypoint. (talk to Philip about the advertising comission)

 

How to get started:

 

1. Send an email to swa...@sentechsa.com with a product description of your seminar(html preferred). Your logo. Your website url if you have one.
2. Wait for an email that requests that you logon to http://www.turbocashtraining.co.za/os/admin   .
3. You may then logon to http://www.turbocashtraining.co.za/os/admin (bookmark it!) .Choose your password

How to Add your seminar events with dates.

1. When loggin on click tools  in the left column (it will say 'Access denied '  in the main page ) but under tools you will now see 'events manager'
2. Click events-manager
3. Click 'New Event'
4. Add your start dates and end dates (good for seminars over a few days)
5. Make a title for your seminar .Repeat for all languages
6. In the "event' box write a short description. Remember the main description is under your product. This is just so you can put 'date specific' details
7. At the bottom click the drop down box under 'Category'
8. Select 'seminars'
9. Now click the drop down box under products and select YOUR seminar .
10. You can fill the the link with your website address if you have additional information about your seminar on a website
11. You can leave image..we already have your logo in your product.

May seem tricky on paper . Try it once and its dead-easy

 

Selwyn Wacks
Eyes on Site
Cell 083 273 4216
email: swa...@sentechsa.com
FAX : 0866774993

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[Ettienne Du Plessis]

hi

phillip regarding the plugins. I think there  should be 2 schools of thought here.

1.When is it a plugin

2.When is it part of turbocash

 

If your application is written as a plugin you should not be bound by  the look and feel of turbocash. The downside of this is that you will have to share your plugin space with other plugins, in no orderly fashion.

 

If you want to have your application to be part of the core process. It must adhere to the turbocash look and feel.

how do we achieve this.

1.We should have base forms everybody must inherit from.

2.We should have dynamic menu structures that can be set up via a configurator, for example someone may write their own POS but want it to be called from within turbocash in place of the current POS or another invoicing program or something like payroll.

 

We should also have a structure that external applications can read from to get things like Language, bookspath. I suggest that we have a table that holds this information, that the external apps can lookup.

 

 

Ettienne

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[Malcolm]

Great. Works O'K. I'll have a look around after I setup the GL with
all those extra accounts.

[Ettienne Du Plessis]

ok

Ettienne Du Plessis

PDSol Consulting
TurboCash Specialists
(The FREE accounting package)
Cell :073 002 5877
E-mail :e...@pds.za.net
Web : http://www.pds.za.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Malcolm" <mal...@sbca.com.au>
To: "TurboCASH" <Turb...@googlegroups.com>

[Philip Copeman]

Our only difference here is the "look and feel" - We can't force anything, but if we are going to offer the resources to the developers we need a well defined structure to offer the developers

Our idea is this : A single accounting package that works in ALL markets. The only variation s then are the plugins. The whole idea about plugins is  that they must be extensions to the TurboCASH package. The fact that it is a separate package should only be in our minds. The users should see the plugin as simple another part of "My TurboCASH".

This is going to take an effort on our behalf to offer each developer the objects they need in a simple manner and it is going to take the developer effort to undersnatd how to write a well behaved plugin in.

It is particularly pertinant to Payroll because we will face the same problem here. We will have varuatiosn ointhe payroll "plug ins" so to speak. So if we don't sort it our now we are gogint to have Plugins to plugins and if they each look differnent, we will be all over the place.

Take a look at what we are doing with the interface int eh latest BEta releases. This shousl be ready ion the near future and offer us a starting point.

We should define this structure before moving forward.

[Ettienne Du Plessis]

I agree. I thought about it more. I think we must provide a template
project that allready has the
XP themes and everything needed to conform to the Turbocash look and
feel. The developer
will then have all the data available when creating a turbocash add on.

I know we can't force anything but we can make it easier for developers
to create TC add ons

I believe my adsl is ready. i will install tonight and skype you.

ett

>> *From:* Philip Copeman <mailto:phi...@pinksoft.co.za>
>> *To:* Turb...@googlegroups.com <mailto:Turb...@googlegroups.com>
>> *Sent:* Friday, September 16, 2005 09:06
>> *Subject:* Re: Payroll Plugin

>> xp
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>> 3) You have to let go of the Delphi Style Database navigator. Add
>> use our icon based structure. YOu are gogint ot need to
>> incorporate som objects from TurboCASH like the new search screeen.
>>
>> 4) Put your "Setup stuff away. It si too prominent for somethign
>> athat is only getting used once.
>>
>> 5) taek our Batch entry screen as the example and our INvocie
>> entry esecreen as the exampl from which to copy.
>>
>> 6) Note the use of XP MENu and NAtive XP commands
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[Malcolm]

The accounts in Payroll have some duplicate Account Codes with
different Descriptions. Only one can be entered in GL. Am I reading
this right ?

[Malcolm]

Maybe I'm not supposed to say this. I tried in Forum and also here but
both times the server reset itself before I could get it posted. Third
time lucky.....

Can you set the grid to resizable (set focus top) so I can drag grid
wider on my screen.

Now a bit of nit pickin ;-)

Setup/Employee DepartMent should be Department
Setup/Payroll parameters should be Parameters ?
Setup/Payment Periods ... Payment day should be Payment Day ?
There is a blank menu entry under "Run Payroll"

Philip was looking for an OS grid. Have you looked at JVCL V3 ? There
is one there along with a host of OS components that could be used in
TC.

[Philip Copeman]

Philip Copeman wrote:

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Here is the link to they giys we user.

http://www.woll2woll.com/

Qualtin Grid does nto seem to offernaythign different.
Scalibrium offers a free one. BUT NOT OPEN SOURCE - he is on ide of  ...now but my preofessional version.

See is you hyou cna find one - I can;t