Compatibility problem between G2 business module and G1

digger vermont dv_mlist at verizon.net
Thu Jan 26 22:50:06 EST 2006


Hello,

On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 10:01 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 22:52:58 -0500
> digger vermont <dv_mlist at verizon.net> wrote:
> 
> > Hello All,
> > 	It looks to me that G2 is "corrupting" the guid's of customers,
> > employees, vendors, etc when opening an account file made with G1.8.12.
> > I haven't looked close enough at whether or not it is a general problem
> > in G2. 
> >

...

> I've seen it too in both 1.8.x and G2. I don't remember the circumstances that caused it in 1.8, but I think it was a crash. The version of G2 I was using at the time I saw this was also crashing, so I sort of ignored it. IIRC, the invoices and payments lose their mapping to vendors. It shows up very obviously in the Payable Aging report. You get balances with a blank vendor column and incorrect totals for the associated vendors. i remember that I manually edited my file to fix the GUID's and it seems to me I had to follow quite a long chain to get it all patched up. Turns out its easier to just unpost, edit and repost the invoices and then delete and replicate the payments. ymmv.
> 
> If you file the bug, I'll add my results as well.
> 
> A
> 

I played around some more, and for me here it looks like it is a general
problem in G2.  I created a new set of accounts in G2 (r12973, though it
also happened with earlier revisions) along with some companies and
invoices.  After saving the file and reopening it the links or mappings
between them are gone.

I files a bug for it: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=328790

digger



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