But the idea is to abandon localization server and let anyone to create and publish their own starting business templates. So we could have starting business templates for various countries / languages / industries / entity types etc.
Once you login, you will see New Business Template button.
When you upload your business template, it won’t be visible within template gallery until you publish it. This is done by viewing business template and clicking Publish button at the bottom:
Now you can go to the latest version of Manager and your business template will be available to be selected in template gallery.
@lubos, I recently worked on some changes to KSA localized reports. This had me wondering about the whole situation of localizations and gallery templates:
Will the new templates still support the ability to be worked on after release like localizations?
Will users be able to switch templates when needed much like localizations or are they stuck with the template they selected?
Based on your description of templates, will the user be eventually able to install more than one template? Take for example the case of UAE, you have VAT, then you have a less common tax scheme for ICV, and then you have industry specific setups. I don’t imagine there being a template for every possible combination of those nor do I find that a single one-size-fits-all template being any good.
@Ealfardan I think you are referring to report transformations. I’m planning to re-implement country-specific reports as external “relay” services. So for user to get country-specific tax report, they would view generic Tax Summary report which would contain button that would POST data from the report to external website. This website would then convert the data from tax summary into more familiar country-specific tax report. Perhaps the website would also contain a button for online lodgement. This is how e-invoicing is going to be implemented and I think the same workflow is applicable for viewing/lodging country-specific tax figures.
So the first step is to transition out of report transformations, this will significantly reduce complexity of authoring business templates.
