Imported invoices and other problems...

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Thu Apr 30 10:01:00 EDT 2009


defaria <Andrew at DeFaria.com> writes:

> Derek Atkins wrote:
>> 
>> There is no way to import an invoice.
>
> If there is no way to import an invoice then surely it should not import
> them at all! Yet it did. So what do I do, just delete all of those
> transactions and re-enter 3 years worth of invoices?!?

It didn't.  It imported the TRANSACTIONS associated with your invoices.
The TRANSACTIONS import just fine, but you lose the invoice metadata,
and it sounds like you also lost your 'payment' transactions, possibly
because your source deals with it differently.

So what do you do?  Um, I'd suggest you ignore your history and just
start over from scratch starting at a reasonable point in time (maybe
January 1, 2009?)   Or you can re-enter 3 years of invoices..  Or you
can ignore only the invoices and just re-enter the open invoices that
haven't been paid yet.

> What version of GnuCash are you using?
>> You're absolutely right that GnuCash shouldn't crash.  I'm sorry it
>> is crashing for you.  If you're running 2.2.9 can you file a bug report
>> on this so we can make sure we don't lose the problem?
>
> As reported above 2.2.6. I just installed it via Ubuntu's Synaptic Package
> Manager and got 2.2.6. Where would I get 2.2.9? Why isn't 2.2.9 known by
> Synaptic?

We don't build packages for any Linux distributions, we only provide
the sources and the distributions build the packages themselves.

I know nothing about Ubuntu, but 2.2.9 is not known most likely because
Ubuntu sucks?  (sorry, that was a joke -- seriously, the problem is that
the Ubutnu maintainer hasn't pushed out another update) ..  But it's
known that Ubuntu has a patch in 2.2.6-3 that causes these crashes.
Downgrade to 2.2.6-2 or build 2.2.9 by hand, or complain to Ubuntu.

>>> OK, not terms. In creating an invoice there is a terms drop down. All
>>> that's
>>> there is "None". How do I set tha that to something other than "None". I
>>> looked around but could find nothing about Terms.
>> 
>> Business -> Billing Terms Editor
>
> OK I can try this when I get home. Still, it would be nice if there was a
> "New" and/or "Edit" right there in the drop down...

Why?  It's not something that gets edited often; you set it up once
and that's it.  So really adding more points into that interface just
clutters the UI.  You want quick-paths to frequent operations.  You
don't need quick-paths to operations done extremely rarely.

-derek

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