Re: [Gnumed-devel] Introducing myself and questions on billing/accounting

[Jim Busser]

On 2011-05-19, at 4:36 PM, Chris Travers wrote:

> Currently LSMB doesn't even support purging old data.  Data could be
> anonymized or bills could be converted into simple GL transactions,
> but fully purging the data poses problems and we aren't really
> prepared to go there at present.  However, the individual transaction
> lines against accounts must be kept in place.  In future versions,
> this process will become easier, but not entirely sure how  we'd want
> to deal with a request to purge data at present except as involves
> severing customer identities and billable services from the financial
> records.

Don't in any way apologize… there is a lot to be said for data integrity. Also, 
the accounting records are unlikely to b individually large as I do not imagine 
that accounting much stores large image or sound or video files!

-- Jim