[FR] Advanced order export

[spnda]

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Problem statement

When submitting an order, we want to send out an Excel that contains only a small amount of data, mostly just the MPN or SKU and the amount. The excel that one gets from downloading the data of an order includes much more than that and would require post processing to match the format we require. I generally think a more clear way to actually send out an order instead of just clicking 'issue order' should be implemented, so that the workflow can be more tailored around managing the entire order in InvenTree.

Suggested solution

Add some UI that lets you column match order line item data to columns in the exported file. I guess this can be achieved using exporters, but not everybody is a developer and perhaps it would be better to provide the option, especially for special cases where a specific format is only required once.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Exporting using a custom exporter plugin, though I am not quite sure how to achieve this to be honest.

Examples of other systems

No response

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• I want to develop this.

[matmair]

There might be a misunderstanding: issuing an order does not send out anything. You could implement this with transactions plugins, but this is not a thing in core InvenTree and will probably not be one for a while.

The requested functionality can be implemented via exporter plugins, I do not think we will implement such a thing in core.

[spnda]

There might be a misunderstanding: issuing an order does not send out anything. You could implement this with transactions plugins, but this is not a thing in core InvenTree and will probably not be one for a while.

No I definitely understood that, and I don't expect this to be part of InvenTree.

The requested functionality can be implemented via exporter plugins, I do not think we will implement such a thing in core.

Yea, I figured that that could somehow be done using plugins. I'll need to read up on how to make one, the docs all 404'd I think. The proposal was having something in core that acts like the document importer but in reverse to map data to column and then generate a CSV or Excel.

[matmair]

This is the specific page for the exporter mixin https://docs.inventree.org/en/1.1.x/plugins/mixins/export/

These plugins also can influence the user interface, we provide multiple sample plugins that can be used as a reference https://docs.inventree.org/en/1.1.x/plugins/mixins/export/#bom-exporter

We have limited resources, we have to defend core from feature creep that increases maintenance surface without any new maintainers in sight.

[matmair]

Yea, I figured that that could somehow be done using plugins. I'll need to read up on how to make one, the docs all 404'd I think.

I linked relevant section for the current stable release above. We CI check our docs during the build step; please provide bug reports when links within the docs are broken.