NAME

       LedgerSMB::DBObject::Employee - LedgerSMB class for managing Employees

SYOPSIS

       This module creates object instances based on LedgerSMB's in-database ORM.

METHODS

       The following method is static:

       new ($LedgerSMB object);
       save
           Saves an employee.  Inputs required

           entity_id
               May not be undef

           start_date
           end_date
           dob date
               may not be undef

           role
               Not the database role.  Either manager or user

           ssn
           sales
           manager_id
           employee_number
       search
           Returns a list of employees matching set criteria:

           employeenumber (exact match)
           startdate_from (start of date range)
           startdate_to (end of date range)
           first_name (partial match)
           middle_name (partial match)
           last_name (partial match)
           notes (partial match)

           Undef values match all values.

       set_entity_class
           Sets the entity class to 3.

       get_managers
           Retrieves a set of managers and attaches to $self->{all_managers}

       save_location
           Saves the location data for the contact.

           Inputs are standard location inputs (line_one, line_two, etc)

       save_contact
           Saves contact information.  Inputs are standard contact inputs:

           entity_id
           contact_class
           contact
           description
           save_bank_account
               Saves a bank account to an employee.

               Standard inputs (entity_id, iban, bic)

           get_metadata()
               This retrieves various information vor building the user interface.  Among other
               things, it sets the following properties: $self->{ar_ap_acc_list} = qw(list of ar
               or ap accounts) $self->{cash_acc_list} = qw(list of cash accounts)

           get Returns the employee record with all the inputs required for "save" populated.

               Also populates:

               locations
                   List of location info

               contacts
                   List of contact info

               notes
                   List of notes

               bank account
                   List of bank accounts

           save_notes
               Saves a note to an employee entity.

               Standard inputs (note, subject, entity_id)

           delete_contact
               required request variables:

               contact_class_id:  int id of contact class contact: text of contact information
               person_id: int of entity_credit_account.id, preferred value

           delete_location
               Deletes a record from the location side.

               Required request variables:

               location_id location_class_id person_id

               Returns true if a record was deleted.  False otherwise.

           delete_bank_account
               Deletes a bank account

               Requires:

               entity_id bank_account_id

               Returns true if a record was deleted, false otherwise.

       get_user_info
           Attaches the user_id and username to the employee object.

           If the user does not have manage_users powers, this will simply return false

Copyright (C) 2007, The LedgerSMB core team.

       This file is licensed under the Gnu General Public License version 2, or at your option
       any later version.  A copy of the license should have been included with your software.