Create a custom document class

A "document" in iDempiere is an application concept that is very useful. Many of iDempiere's built in functions use documents for its implementation. Examples of documents are:

• Invoices
• Shipments
• Inventory moves/adjustments
• Payments

What makes documents special from other entities (such as business partners / products) are that they have a document status.

The document status enables the documents to be in a workflow and be in different statuses.

This concept is very powerful and the possibility to create new custom documents makes iDempiere even more powerful and flexible.

Steps to create a new custom document

• Create a new Model (will be explained more in detail)
  • Except for the other mandatory fields the model must contain the following fields
  • C_DocType_ID numeric(10,0) NOT NULL DEFAULT 0::numeric
  • C_DocTypeTarget_ID numeric(10,0) NOT NULL DEFAULT 0::numeric
  • DocAction character varying(2) NOT NULL DEFAULT 'CO'::bpchar
  • DocStatus character varying(2) NOT NULL DEFAULT 'DR'::character varying
  • DocumentNo character varying(30) NOT NULL
  • processed character(1) DEFAULT 'N'::bpchar
  • processing character(1) DEFAULT 'N'::bpchar
  • isapproved character(1) NOT NULL DEFAULT 'Y'::bpchar
• Generate the model class
• The model class must implement DocAction.