[account] Poor wording in the Overdue Payments report

Bug #675463 reported by James Jesudason
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Canonical OpenERP
Fix Released
Undecided
Unassigned
Odoo Addons (MOVED TO GITHUB)
Fix Released
Low
OpenERP R&D Addons Team 3

Bug Description

The Overdue Payments report in the accounts module has the following wording:

"""
Dear Sir/Madam,
Exception made of a mistake of our side, it seems that the following bills stay unpaid. Please, take appropriate measures in order to carry out this payment in the next 8 days.

[[ message(o, company) ]]

Best regards.
"""

This is poor English and it most of the wording is hard-coded into the report. It would be better to remove the whole hard-coded message and to only have the company's overdue payment message i.e.

"""
[[ message(o, company) ]]
"""

That way the report can be configured to say what the company actual needs. Right now, the report is inflexible and unusable.

Tags: wording

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James Jesudason (jamesj)
Changed in canonical-openerp:
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in openobject-addons:
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Low
assignee: nobody → OpenERP R&D Addons Team 3 (openerp-dev-addons3)
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qdp (OpenERP) (qdp) wrote :

i agree with above statement.

Don't forget to set the demo data and/or the default value accordingly with the concatenation of existing 2 strings

Changed in openobject-addons:
milestone: none → 6.0-rc2
Changed in openobject-addons:
status: Confirmed → In Progress
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Numérigraphe (numerigraphe) wrote :

James Jesudason: If it is to remain the demo data, perhaps you could propose a better wording?

tags: added: wording
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James Jesudason (jamesj) wrote : Re: [Bug 675463] Re: [account] Poor wording in the Overdue Payments report

Perhaps something like:

"Please note that the following payments are now due. If your payment
has been sent, kindly forward your payment details. If payment will be
delayed further, please contact us to discuss."

This is on the assumption that the 'Overdue Payments' report only
contains overdue invoices. I believe that the standard report includes
both current and overdue invoices. We have customised this report to
only show overdue invoices, and have created a separate report called
'Account Statement' that contains both current and overdue payments. I
can provide you with that code, if you are interested in seeing it.

Revision history for this message
Purnendu Singh (OpenERP) (purnendu-singh) wrote :

Hello James Jesudason,

We have fixed the problem in lp:~openerp-dev/openobject-addons/trunk-
dev-addons3 branch, It will be merged soon in lp:openobject-addons.

Revision No: 4719
Revision ID: mra@mra-laptop-20101207124933-v210oy4wg45mwuiz

Thanks
PSI

Changed in canonical-openerp:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
Changed in openobject-addons:
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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Niels Huylebroeck (red15) wrote :

Can't say I like the new phrasing for the default due payment ...

Old
Would your payment have been carried
out after this mail was sent, please consider the present one as
void. Do not hesitate to contact our accounting department

New
Please note that the following payments are now due. If your payment
has been sent, kindly forward your payment details. If payment will be
delayed further, please contact us to discuss.
Would your payment have been carried out after this mail was sent, please consider the present one as void.

The new message seems to imply 2 possible actions when the payment has been done already:
a) forward the payment details
b) consider the present one as void

Does this new message have any backing from the ISO9001 manual then ? Is it copy&paste ?

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