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[Raphael Valyi <rvalyi@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Carlos and others,

I'm answering inline below:

On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 8:13 AM, Carlos Liébana <carlosliebana@xxxxxxxxx>
 wrote:

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> I don't see it either. It seems that now contacts are linked to the
> company itself (which may be correct in a lot of cases) but as you mention
> it should be possible also to do it against several addresses. But what
> worries me the most is how to deal with several addresses, and why this
> feature has "dissapeared" in v7 by default. If there's not
> "res.partner.address" anymore, it won't be usable in a lot of cases, above
> all manufacturing and logistic industries.
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> Can somebody from OpenERP SA explain this, please?
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You guy frightened me a lot with this statement: "oh shit! they wouldn't
dare removing the multi-address feature, would they?"
Fortunately, the multi-address is still supported! The trick is to go in
Settings/Sale and then enable the checkbox "allow a different address for
delivery and invoicing". Then you'll get your beloved address fields back...

Actually, speaking specifically about this feature I support the new
approach: at least in the many small companies where they don't care about
such different address you can hide the field. Generally speaking they
finally put an end to that non modular "advanced" trash god group you would
need to enable anyway in previous versions. Now, that's more modular,
that's better.

As for the base_contact features, well, I won't comment on them because I
don't know that module very well, so cannot compare with the new features.
I would tend to trust Ana instead, unless proven otherwise.

As for the migration scripts from openupgrade I support the initiative too
as not all our customers are willing to go with the Enterprise contract
(specially when they are just a bit upper the pricing thresholds), so
having migration alternatives is a must. Thanks to the authors, we will
certainly help when facing non Enterprise migrations (not the job we
prefer, but it might still be worth not loosing our customers neither
support them on oldish versions).

Best regards,


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