Setting Next Invoice Numbers?

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Tue May 13 10:43:14 CDT 2003


Hi,

David Powell <davidjp at uqconnect.net> writes:

> Hi All,
> 
> Firstly, thanks to those who develop and maintain Gnucash - I find it very 
> useful and easy to use.
> 
> I just wondered if it was possible to set the invoice numbers that are 
> automatically generated when you leave the field blank.
> 
> I'm continuing invoice numbers from my old system, so didn't want to start 
> back at 000001.  At the moment I'm handling this by entering the next Inv 
> number manually, but is there a way to make my next invoice number generate 
> automatically from a figure I set?

Um, unfortunately there is no UI interface to do it.  You can do it by
editing your XML data file by hand (it should be right at the
beginning of the file inthe "counters" section).  I never really could
figure out how important it was to set the invoice number, or perhaps
to recompute it from an input number.

What would you imagine as the UI for setting this value?  How would
you imagine it working?

> Thanks again,
> 
> David

-derek

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