"There was an error parsing the file..." (invoice:owner missing)

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Mon Jun 4 10:09:02 EDT 2012


"Mike C. Fletcher" <mcfletch at vrplumber.com> writes:

> On 12-06-01 11:39 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Fri, June 1, 2012 11:24 am, Mike C. Fletcher wrote:
> ...
>> there should be no way in the UI to actually wind up with this
>> object. Did you edit the XML by hand, or use a script to generate
>> this? Or perhaps use the invoice importer? I can't think of any way
>> in the UI to create an object like this. You can see if there are
>> any other references by doing: grep 6a76b4dead1c32faa8cb62c1253d2955
>> <your data file> This should at least show you if there are any
>> other references to this GUID. If not, then you can safely just
>> remove it. Of course you should back up the data file before making
>> any changes. 
> Hmm, your suggestion was correct, apparently this invoice *was*
> generated by the invoice importer (how, I do not know, as I believed I
> had reverted to an earlier copy of the file after that disaster).  The
> invoice had lots of references from its line items, so I just created
> a reference to the customer to allow the GUI to load.

Sounds like (another?) bug in the invoice importer..  Please report this
in Bugzilla, especially if you think you could re-create it!

Thanks,

> Thank you very much,
> Mike

-derek
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