HR Fiscal Year cleanup

[akhileshdarjee]

• New Doctype - Leave Period
• New Doctype - Branch Holiday List
• Replace Fiscal Year with Leave Period
• Include from_date and to_date in Salary Slip, Salary Manager

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[yalu]

My issues are related to this if not exactly the same. In Nepal, the de-facto civil calender system is Bikram Samvat(B.S). We have been facing issues with fiscal year, salary slip and everything to do with ERPNext assuming Gregorian calendar.

B.S. as it is used in Nepal, is not quite simple like Solar Calendars where it follows simple and constant rules. In-fact it may not be empirical at all. However, a database driven approach has been in use in software quite reliably for years.

The following open-source project implements the system in PHP:

https://github.com/bibstha/NepaliDateApi

I'm very much interested in seeing this issue resolved as I'm sure others in regions of the world that use different calendar system would be interested too.

I'm also looking at how I can develop this feature myself, but it could be a while before I get to it.

Any pointer or help is deeply appreciated.

Thanks!

[anandpdoshi]

@yalu We will take this up when we work on HR cleanup. We intend to remove
Fiscal Year from the HR module

On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 7:04 PM, yalu notifications@github.com wrote:

My issues are related to this if not exactly the same. In Nepal, the
de-facto civil calender system is Bikram Samvat(B.S). We have been facing
issues with fiscal year, salary slip and everything to do with ERPNext
assuming Gregorian calendar.

B.S. as it is used in Nepal, is not quite simple like Solar Calendars
where it follows simple and constant rules. In-fact it may not be empirical
at all. However, a database driven approach has been in use in software
quite reliably for years.

The following open-source project implements the system in PHP:

https://github.com/bibstha/NepaliDateApi

I'm very much interested in seeing this issue resolved as I'm sure others
in regions of the world that use different calendar system would be
interested too.

I'm also looking at how I can develop this feature myself, but it could be
a while before I get to it.

Any pointer or help is deeply appreciated.

Thanks!

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#1395 (comment).

[anandpdoshi]

Correction. We intend to remove Fiscal Year from Leave Allocation /
Application.

On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 11:24 PM, Anand Doshi anand@erpnext.com wrote:

@yalu We will take this up when we work on HR cleanup. We intend to remove
Fiscal Year from the HR module

On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 7:04 PM, yalu notifications@github.com wrote:

My issues are related to this if not exactly the same. In Nepal, the
de-facto civil calender system is Bikram Samvat(B.S). We have been facing
issues with fiscal year, salary slip and everything to do with ERPNext
assuming Gregorian calendar.

B.S. as it is used in Nepal, is not quite simple like Solar Calendars
where it follows simple and constant rules. In-fact it may not be empirical
at all. However, a database driven approach has been in use in software
quite reliably for years.

The following open-source project implements the system in PHP:

https://github.com/bibstha/NepaliDateApi

I'm very much interested in seeing this issue resolved as I'm sure others
in regions of the world that use different calendar system would be
interested too.

I'm also looking at how I can develop this feature myself, but it could
be a while before I get to it.

Any pointer or help is deeply appreciated.

Thanks!

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#1395 (comment).

[rmehta]

@yalu, you will need to find relevant libraries in Python and MySQL for this and a relevant DatePicker in Javascript. Also we will need to upgrade moment.js and others too.

Or we could just write a client side converter that would fix the views, but it will be hard to fix the backend logic unless all the underlying libraries accept this date format.

[yalu]

Got it! I see the complexity involved.

I'll be looking into developing/customizing the libraries according to the need specific to B.S calendar. At certain level of complexity there could perhaps also be some kind of generic API where different calendar systems could be interchanged.

meanwhile "removal of Fiscal Year from Leave Allocation" and such should allow non-western calendar users to still use western calendar and have a workable HR processes.

Thank you all as always, for the insights, willingness and promptness to help!