redmine_qbo

The goal of this project is to allow redmine to connect with Quickbooks Online to create time activity entries for completed work when an issue is closed.

Note: This project is under heavy development. Currently the initial functionality goal has been meet, however I am still working on adding other features. Tags should be stable

####How it works

Issues can be assigned to a QBO Customer and QBO Service Item via drop down in issues form
- The QBO Employee for the issue is assigned via the assigned redmine user
- IF an Issue has been assined a QBO Customer, QBO Service Item & QBO Employee when an Issue is closed the following will happen:
- A new QBO Time Activity agaist the QBO Customer will be created using the total spent hours logged agaist an Issue.
- The rate will be the set via the QBO Service Item price
Issues with the Tracker Quote will generate an estimate based on the estimated hours and QBO Service Item cost.
- Needs to have a QBO Customer & QBO Service Item Assiged
Users will be assigned a QBO Employee via a drop down in the user admistration page.

##Prerequisites

Sign up to become a developer for Intuit https://developer.intuit.com/
Create your own aplication to obtain your API keys

##The Install

To install, clone this repo into your plugin folder

git clone git@github.com:rickbarrette/redmine_qbo.git

Migrate your database

rake redmine:plugins:migrate RAILS_ENV=production

Navigate to the plugin configuration page and suppy your own OAuth key & secret.

After saving your key & secret, you need to click on the Authenticate link on the plugin configuration page to authenticate with QBO.
Assign an Employee to each of your users via the User Administration Page

Usage

To enable automatic QBO Time Activity entries for an Issue , you need only to assign a QBO Customer and QBO Item to an Issue via drop downs in the creation/update form.

Note: Customers, Employees, and Service Items with automaticly update during normal usage of redmine i.e. a page refresh. You can also manualy force redmine to sync its database with QBO clicking the sync link in the Quickbooks top menu page

TODO

Abiltiy to add line items to a ticket in a dynamic table so they can be added to the invoice upon closing of the issue
Customer Creation, Update, Deletion
Email Customer updates, provding a link that would: bypass the login page, go directly to the issue directing them to, and allow them to view only that issue.
Add a rake file to create required Trackers or statuses required
Clean up view hook code, possibly use a controller hook and reder partial views
Add Setting for Sandbox Mode

##License

The MIT License (MIT)

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