Invoice description field enhancement

[Des Dougan]

On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 09:21 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> I'm not sure I follow what you're trying to do.  You have a single
> line-item but you want a multi-line description?  Why not just keep
> typing in the description field?  There's effectively no length limit
> (although that might change in the future when we move to SQLite).

Basically, yes, it's a single line item, with more than one line's worth
of descriptive text (for example, I spent about 3 hours installing a new
SCSI card and tape drive in a client's server; I want to break down some
of the steps in the invoice's description field, while showing a single
value for hours worked, amount per hour and total charged. One large
paragraph is not particularly easy to read on the invoice report).

> If you really have multiple items you want to document, just put them
> on multiple lines.  Note that you DON'T need to supply a value for
> every item, and I _believe_ you don't need to supply an account if the
> value is zero.  (If that's not true I'm willing to make a change to
> support that).

I just tried this, and it sort of works for me. You can indeed put in
multiple lines, leaving out unrequired values (thanks for the
suggestion). However, the invoice report shows a quantity of 0.00, a
total of $0.00, etc. on the lines with zero values. It would be much
better if these were left blank (for me, at any rate).

> Getting "embedded returns" in the decription field is probably going
> to be a LOT of work (and it's work that I can assure you I have no
> intention to do myself).

Understood.

Many thanks for your very helpful response.

Des
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