Enabling physical inventories with a past date

Follow below steps for the preparation of applying bug fix/enhancement on physical inventories.

1. Stop OpenERP.
2. Replace addons/stock/stock.py with the stock.py file from the GitHub repository.
3. Restart OpenERP.
4. Install stock_physical_inventory_adjust.

Changes Made to OpenERP By This Extension

1. Creation Date

• This date will have no substantial impact for stock move an journal entry records. Please use this date just for reference.

2. Date Done

• At Confirm Inventory OpenERP does following calculation to generate stock move records:
  • (Quantity in General Information tab) − (Quantity as of Date Done)
• At Validate Inventory the Date Done value is used as the effective date for stock moves and associated journal entry.

Some Points to Note

1. When one presses Fill Inventory, OpenERP populates General Information tab with products and quantities. The info is based on the current OpenERP inventory, not the inventory as of Creation Date or Date Done. This is the default behavior of OpenERP.

2. When one presses Validate Inventory, OpenERP generates a journal entry while changing the status of stock moves to Done. However, when one presses Cancel Inventory, OpenERP does not cancel the corresponding journal entry. This is a bug, but is on the roadmap to be fixed. Please, remember to delete the journal entry if Cancel Inventory is used.

3. Since we have modified the original stock.py file, if one updates OpenERP, depending on the latest source code changes to the stock.py file, the changes will need to be merged.