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Subject: Re: [ubl-dev] Simple ODF/XForms (OOo2/SO8) for UBL 1.0 Invoice
A further few notes (following offline comments, thanks):
1. I'm excited about how it might be possible to link
OOo XSLT handling with it. This would
allow use of macros to do things like:
++ pre-transform say a UBL Order to the initial part of a UBL
Invoice prior to editing the invoice further with the form
++ after form output of an XML instance to the local drive,
convert the XML to something else like XHTML (or even an
Invoice to XBRL-GL for importing into a general ledger
system or spreadsheet).
2. One should find that the Create Document button adds
a UBL file at file:///c:/invoice.xml but you'd have to change the
submission details in OOo to point to something like
file:////home/invoice.xml (?) if you have Linux or Unix.
If think it works but doesn't give a message to say anything
has happened. To check, any data input should appear when
you open the other form but again, if you use Linux/Unix
you'll have to change the link url as above in the relevant
instance details.
3. The fact you can save the whole file with data is interesting
(though it adds complexity to how the whole thing gets used).
It means you can send a whole .odt file in an email and
the receiving person can use a button to do something with the
contained instance (save it, upload it or import it to back office
or spreadsheet) but care has to be used at present in storage
to avoid storing something that can be edited. This applies
to the conversion to pdf in that a pdf for an input form that
hasn't been made readonly allows changes before printing which
might not be obviously possible to auditors. Hence it should,
I think be best practise that only readonly forms be sent if they
are sent in their entirety.
All the best
Stephen Green
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Green" <stephen_green@seventhproject.co.uk>
To: <ubl-dev@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 12:34 PM
Subject: Re: [ubl-dev] Simple ODF/XForms (OOo2/SO8) for UBL 1.0 Invoice
> Simple ODF/XForms (OOo2/SO8) for UBL 1.0 Invoice
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Here are (hopefully) fixed OpenOffice 2.0 (OOo2)
> / StarOffice 8.0 (SO8) Open Document Format /
> XForms combination XML Forms to produce simple
> UBL Invoices (without tax, etc at this stage of progress).
>
> Only * for use at your own risk * but open source
> (produced on behalf of the Open Source Academy).
>
> The forms were actually produced with the first dev
> version of OOo2 but are expected to work with the
> production versions of OOo2 and SO8.
>
> Notes:
> I avoided including Country/IdentificationCode since
> this would have warranted including a combo box with
> country codes (similar to that I've included for currency
> codes) and time constraints forbade this.
>
> The Invoice produced should be UBL 1.0 Small Business
> Subset (SBS) compliant in that it does not include any
> essential extra subset data but the reader form only caters
> for the same ultra simple Invoice and not the full SBS.
> A nice improvement would be to aim to cater for the whole
> SBS but constraints forbid me personally at present.
>
> Another obvious improvement would be to add functionality
> as it is added to the OOo2+/SO8+ XForms implementation.
>
> Adding indirect tax capabilities would warrant (perhaps
> necessitate) adding a disclaimer that the forms should only
> be used in accordance with relevant tax authority and other
> legal regulations (which are out of the scope of the input
> form itself). For instance it may not be allowed that tax
> registered businesses use UBL 1.0 as electronic XML files
> for trading without local tax office permission.
>
> NB:
> The archives of these ubl-dev messages replace the
> filenames with generated filenames, replacing the .odt
> extensions with .bin extensions. I suggest saving the file
> locally and changing the filename or at least the extension
> back to .odt before attempting to open with OOo (2+) or
> SO8 (8+) or an equivalent product which might be able to
> handle the ODF/XForms combination.
>
> All the best
>
> Stephen Green
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stephen Green" <stephen_green@seventhproject.co.uk>
> To: <ubl-dev@lists.oasis-open.org>
> Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 10:43 AM
> Subject: Re: [ubl-dev] Simple ODF/XForms (OOo2/SO8) for UBL 1.0 Invoice
>
>
> Apologies folks, I found some errors in
> my work (not surprised, just dismayed). The
> 'readonly' XML form isn't readonly, for a
> start, and it shouldn't include the currency
> combo box. The other XML form has a
> readonly combo box. No idea how all that
> happened (I'll blame it on the gremlins :-)
> Anyway, I'm getting into constraint problems
> from higher so, though I'll try to send out
> improved versions, I may have my time on
> this curtailed - in which case it'll be up to
> others to fix things if they wish to use them
> or take them further. I hope there's enough
> done to give the idea though. Having such
> forms available to as many as possible
> ('bridging the digital divide' as much as
> possible) would be nice though...
>
> By the way, a crazy idea I had was that
> if folk don't have email access (like myself
> out of working hours) what if those who
> process invoices by scanning them were to
> configure their OCR to read UBL (printed),
> then folk could send printed UBL invoices
> (etc) without the hassle of conversion to pdf
> (if they've already a means to easily produce
> UBL). Crazy?
>
> All the best
>
> Stephen Green
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Stephen Green
> To: ubl-dev@lists.oasis-open.org
> Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 1:12 PM
> Subject: Re: [ubl-dev] Simple ODF/XForms (OOo2/SO8) for UBL 1.0 Invoice
>
>
> Please note that if you open these forms
> from the web archive they will need the
> filename extensions changing to .odt
>
> Also, if you have unix/linux you'll need to
> change the target filepath/url for the submission
> and the same change for the linked file of the
> readonly form. At present both point to
> file:///c:/invoice.xml so they could be changed
> to something like file:///home/invoice.xml (not
> quite sure if this is correct).
>
> It should be possible to create a simple UBL 1.0
> Invoice with one form (saved locally) then use
> the other form to read it (from where it is saved)
> and convert it to pdf (OpenOffice 2 and Star
> Office 8 have this facility). Then either or both
> as appropriate could be sent say by email (for
> micro/small businesses this might be OK - please
> don't blame me if it isn't) as attachments and/or
> imported somehow into a finance system or
> spreadsheet (perhaps with an office product
> macro, say). Note that the first form, if used to
> directly create a pdf, will in OOo2/SO8, produce
> a form that can be edited before printing and this
> would be unacceptably risky for sending as an
> Invoice. Again, please accept that the use of the
> forms is at users own risk.
>
> All the best
>
> Stephen Green
>
> PS Really loved Juha's UBL greeting customisation!
>
>
> Peace and Goodwill to all -
> And y'all Love the Almighty back with all you've got!
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Stephen Green
> To: ubl-dev@lists.oasis-open.org
> Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 7:07 PM
> Subject: [ubl-dev] Simple ODF/XForms (OOo2/SO8) for UBL 1.0 Invoice
>
>
> Folks,
>
> Just in time for the holidays I've produced
> (for 'Open Source Academy' but anyone can
> use them if you do so at your own risk) a
> couple of forms, one for input, the other for
> reading and exporting to PDF, to produce
> crude but possible useful UBL 1.0 invoices.
> They would probably suit a micro business
> and illustrate the ODF/XForms combination
> used in OpenOffice 2 and StarOffice 8.
> Please forgive the ultra-simplicity (there are
> just 10 lines and I couldn't yet find a way to
> not output lines when they are void of data).
>
> I'd welcome feedback so I can improve these
> (again as part of some open source work).
>
> I hope the archive can accept the attachments,
> sorry if this doesn't work - please ignore this
> email then and I'll try another way later.
>
> All the best and happy holidays.
>
> Stephen Green
>
>
>
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