[Feature Request] Expose ZUGFeRD XML setting in ipconfig.php

[onny]

I would like to enable ZUGFeRD XML via ipconfig.php by setting INCLUDE_ZUGFERD=true :)

This would help to configure InvoicePlane decleratively, for example in NixOS https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Invoiceplane

[nielsdrost7]

At the moment it's a setting in the database:
get_setting('include_zugferd')
If you want to set this setting during install of InvoicePlane, I might know a way, but let's think about that one:

During install_database or upgrade_database (whatever those 2 functions are), check for env_bool(INCLUDE_ZUGFERD)
and if true, add this setting to the database with the correct value.

Idea?

[onny]

It would be nice to configure this on runtime too. This might also apply to other settings.

There might be a runtime function which checks for additional environment variables and write these settings into database?
Or a special function get_config which reads settings form environment first and if not set will take it from the database?

[onny]

In the meantime I added a section to the NixOS wiki on how to enable electronic invoicing by hardcoding it's activation to the source code https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Invoiceplane#Electronic_invoice

[Verony-makesIT]

Hello,
For your information, please keep in mind that this "Zugferd setting" is currently used in IP to embed an electronic invoice (as an xml file) into the pdf.
This Zugferd format is only used in Germany.
Outside of France which uses a similar format (Factur-X), the rest of Europe (and beyond...) uses the UBL format (a separate XML and PDF file).
If this global Zugferd setting is activated in IP then every PDF invoice will be sent to the customer including the embedded Zugferd file, no matter where your customer is located. This is actually not recommended.
It would be much better to modify/adapt IP so that the user can specify in the customer settings whether they want an electronic invoice and which (country-dependent) electronic invoice format they wish to receive.
My "PR - Implementing e-invoicing flow #939 #977" works that way.

[nielsdrost7]

In onny's case we have to make it a config setting, so if env_bool(INCLUDE_ZUGFERD) is true, then we set the correct setting in the database.
This way only settings that are specifically set to true will update the database with 'Zugferd is set to on', if that makes sense

[onny]

In onny's case we have to make it a config setting, so if env_bool(INCLUDE_ZUGFERD) is true, then we set the correct setting in the database.
This way only settings that are specifically set to true will update the database with 'Zugferd is set to on', if that makes sense

sounds good 👌