Problems with custom invoice

[Chris Dennis]

Brian wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-20-11 at 17:54 -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> Quoting Chris Dennis <cgdennis at btinternet.com>:
>>
>>> OK, I'll continue this in -devel.
>>>
>>> You should use
>>>> (gnc:owner-get-name-and-address-dep owner) as the API to
>>>> obtain the owner's name and address.
>>> I am using that -- I didn't make that clear.
>> Okay...
>>
>>>>> Is there a way to access the client contact name on an invoice?  I can't
>>>>> find one despite much Googling.
>>>> Of course..  All the other invoices do it :)  Perhaps you're not
>>>> pulling off the invoice's owner?
>>> They don't seem to -- the standard 'fancy invoice' in GC2.0.2 doesn't
>>> display the client contact name from the billing address.  It did in
>>> 1.8.10.  For example, if the Edit Customer window looks like this:
>> I know nothing about the Fancy Invoice;
> 
> Not quite :) You did improve a few mods I did for the 2.x series.  But I
> did not change that (I checked my diff file I submitted).
> 
>>  that report was donated to
>> the project.  The Printable Invoice, however, does it just fine, even
>> in 2.0.x, so the code clearly works.  It's possible, however, that the
>> Fancy Invoice does something differently than the Printable Invoice.
>> I don't know.
>>
> 
> Yes the 2 code blocks are slightly different.  But my installed version
> is 2.0.1 and the printable & easy invoices do not show the 
> "Billing Address Name" either.  Only the Customer Name & Billing
> Address.
> 
> 
>>>     Identifcation
>>>      Customer Number: 000123
>>>      Company Name:    Bloggs and Co
>>>     Billing Address
>>>      Name:            Mr Fred Bloggs
>>>      Address:         1 The Street
>>> 	              The Town
>>>                       etc.
>>>
>>> the invoice only shows this:
>>>
>>>     Bloggs and Co
>>>     1 The Street
>>>     The Town
>>>
>>> without 'Mr Fred Bloggs'.
>> Well, either the Invoice has no attached customer, or there's a bug.
>>
> 
> It's a bug :(

Thank you -- I thought I was going mad.
> 
> 
>>> Chris
>> -derek
>>
> 
> The fancy invoice snipit:
> 
>     (gnc:html-table-cell-append-objects!
>      name-cell (gnc:owner-get-name-dep owner))
>     (gnc:html-table-cell-set-style!
>      name-cell "td"
>      'font-size "+2")
>     (gnc:html-table-append-row! table (list name-cell #\newline "<br>"))
>     (gnc:html-table-append-row!
>      table
>      (list
>       (string-expand (gnc:owner-get-address-dep owner) #\newline "<br>")))
>     (gnc:html-table-append-row!
>      table
>      (list "<br>"))
> 
> 
> The invoice.scm snipit:
> 
>     (gnc:html-table-append-row!
>      table
>      (list
>       (string-expand (gnc:owner-get-name-and-address-dep owner) #\newline "<br>")))
>     (gnc:html-table-append-row!
>      table
>      (list "<br>"))
> 

I've tried all of gnc:owner-get-address, gnc:owner-get-name-dep, 
gnc:owner-get-address-dep, and gnc:owner-get-name-and-address-dep, and 
none of them include billing address name (which is referred to as the 
contact name in some places).

The relevant code in guile-modules/gnucash/business-core.scm hasn't 
changed since 1.8.10, so I'm at a loss.

cheers

Chris
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Chris Dennis                                  cgdennis at btinternet.com
Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK