GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 140681
Resources should have a cost/account code associated with them.
Last modified: 2005-02-25 23:26:52 UTC
Now that we're focusing on costs we also need to be able to track who's costs they are !. Resource should have a cost code/account code/cost centre (call it whatever you want) - which is a attribute associated with a resource. <P> Its not related to groups (though there is some overlap). I've been on project teams where I'm on secondment and my cost code is completely different department. I'm in the development group but not paid by that group. I see Groups as ephemeral organisations within a company thats formed to do a job on the project and is only loosely associated with the payroll related accounting. <P> Ideally we create an Account dialog (like the group) and then in the resource have a picker (like group) which also has the default action like group does. The Account stores ... Account Name (text), Code (text), Manager Name (text), Manager Phone (text) Manager email (text) and Default (checkbox).
...also - I plan to have the Resource Currency be inherited from the assigned Account. This is to make sure we end up reporting forex correctly and stop people from accidently costing resources different from the accounting code. See bugzilla, http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=138935
This is what custom properties are used for, no need to hardcode things like this.