Hi Everyone, I am planning to design a step bar that can be in the header of Doctype which gives easy fact visualization to status of the dock type and next steps all while providing fast navigation.
Let takes for example a purchase order, when we first create the order it will show the following
The blue means active (stile in progress not finalized yet), the white mean still not accessible. However, when the user submit the draft, the step bar will turns as follows
A lot of work to implement this was already done in the run up to v7, but it got shelved. I would talk to the core team and find out the reason, so you don’t duplicate work.
The way it worked in the development version was to track through multiple documents. So, for example, a material request would lead to a supplier quotation, then a purchase order, purchase receipt, purchase invoice, etc. So you could click on any one of those documents and see (a) how far along the process it was (from the material request, see if it had been ordered, received, invoiced) and (b) have a link to each of those documents by clicking on the dot.
@Ben_Cornwell_Mott is right, we tried it but finally decided against it.
The document flows are not linear so if you have multiple forks from a Sales Order or merges at an invoice, this does not give an accurate picture. “Related Documents” gives a better picture.
