General account should not be required on analytic entries

[Numérigraphe]

The manual for analytic accounts states[1] : "Each analytic entry can be linked to a general account, or not, as you wish. Conversely, an entry in a general account can be linked to one, several, or no corresponding analytic accounts."

But the field 'general_account_id' is defined as "required=True" in account/account_analytic_line.py
I suggest that this requirement should be relaxed to allow greater flexibility in analytic accounting.

[1] http://doc.openerp.com/v6.1/book/4/4_10_Accounts/index.html

Lionel Sausin

[Stéphane Bidoul (Acsone) (sbi)]

+1

For instance, on timesheets, there is no to require a general account.

[Steve Romanow (slestak989)]

If anything, the requirement should be moved to the modules that use the
field _and_ require it?

[Numérigraphe (numerigraphe)]

I'm pushing a trivial fix for 6.0, and another for 6.1+ (applies cleanly to 6.1, 7.0 and trunk).

[Yves Hoyos (yves-hoyos)]

Hi,
Thanks for the patch.

Is it possible to merge the code (reintegrate the branch) into the trunk?

Thanks

[Ferdinand (office-chricar)]

Just one thing to consider
if financial accounting and analytic accounting use different data sets and hence produce different results it is mandatory to explain the difference.

financial result
+/- named differences
analytic result

see for example the module
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~camptocamp/c2c-rd-addons/7.0/files/head:/chricar_account_analytic/
which set up some (important) rules for the usage of analytic accounts in fiscal accounting. (all P&L move lines must have analytic accounts)

[Alexandre Fayolle - camptocamp (alexandre-fayolle-c2c)]

https://github.com/odoo/odoo/issues/389