Comment 0 for bug 1860015

Back in 2010 infrastructure was added to try to attribute fund debits in acquisitions to funding source credits, e.g., to track expenditures of grant funds.

This feature barely has a user interface: the only way to calculate debit attributions is torun the stored procedure acq.attribute_debits(), which in turn truncates the table acq.debit_attribution and repopulates it with its best guess based on the effective and deadline dates set for the funding source credits.

I suspect this may be a necro-feature, so I would like to find out if anybody is using it? Since it's making an educated guess about which funding source credit applies to a given fund debit, I would also be curious to know if that's sufficient for tracking (say) grant expenditures.

I think one of the following should be done:

- If the feature is being used, it should be documented and a staff UI provided to activate it.
- If the feature is not being used, it should be considered for deprecation and removal (and/or relegation to an optional add-on component).
- Development should be considered to allow acquisitions users to precise state that a particular funding source credit applies to a debit.