[GNC-dev] Find customer/vendor by name

Steve Brown sbrown at opensat.com
Mon May 8 16:16:30 EDT 2023


Hi Derek,

On 5/8/2023 3:49 PM, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Steve,
>
> On Mon, May 8, 2023 3:36 pm, Steve Brown wrote:
>> There is currently code to find both by ID in gncIDSearch.
>>
>> Is there a simple way to search by name other than cloning the ID
>> search code and changing ID to name?
> You can Find by Company Name, Customer ID, Billing Contact, or Shipping
> Contact.  Which "Name" are you wanting to search for?

I want to retrieve the vendor by VENDOR_NAME and customer by 
CUSTOMER_NAME in order to get their ID.

I'm converting Quickbook transactions and need to create invoices and 
bills. For that I need customer and vendor ID's but only have the names 
in the transaction file.

Thanks,

Steve

>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Steve
> -derek
>


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