Setting Next Invoice Numbers?

[Boris Goldowsky]

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>David Powell <davidjp at uqconnect.net> writes:
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>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?
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Derek Atkins answers:

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>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.
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>What would you imagine as the UI for setting this value?  How would
>you imagine it working?
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If I can jump in with my two cents, here's what I expected when I 
started using the invoicing system.  The first time I generated an 
invoice, I set the invoice number manually.  My expectation was that the 
/next/ invoice generated would use that number plus 1.  So no separate 
UI would be needed in that case, just a rule that says if you set an 
invoice number manually then that number+1 goes into the counter for 
next time  (perhaps checking that number+1 is not already used for 
another invoice).

If I'm not mistaken, this is how Gnucash check numbering works, so it 
would be consistent with that.

Boris
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