Handling sub entities (like multiple units in a single Frappe Book)

[kukaki]

Handling sub entities would be useful when entering data for multiple units of an entity.

Lets say, if a person has 2 shops, he would like to maintain a single Frappe Book with 2 sub entities viz. Shop1 and Shop2.

• While making entries, he may select Shop1 or Shop2 or Consolidated to which the entry belongs to.

• Accordingly, while generating reports, he may select Shop1 or Shop2 or Consolidated, to generate specific sub entity reports.

I found LedgerLite app to be useful in this case. Here is a screenshot describing this feature.

[18alantom]

Adding this to the Roadmap

For future reference: subentities at first seem as good as maintaining 2 dbs since they are isolated, but the advantages are that:

1. No overhead of having another db (db switching is trivial and instant so overhead isn't much of a problem).
2. No need to set up the entity and other entries such as Items, Suppliers multiple times.
3. Can run grouped queries (Consolidated as mentioned above) which is useful because they are sub entities, not completely different ones.

Will add this due to points 2 and 3. It isn't a priority as of now but should be included within the next 2 - 3 versions.