Imported invoices and other problems...

[defaria]

Derek Atkins wrote:
> 
> defaria <Andrew at DeFaria.com> writes:
> 
> 
> 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.

I don't think you understood. Let me try to explain better. Gnucash should
not import anything if the result of that import would cause the data to be
corrupted. IOW if importing this causes me to have to delete and otherwise
patch up 3 years worth of invoices because you can't handle invoices, and
you know full well that such an account has invoices, then don't import such
transactions that will cause the end user extra work.


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.

You don't operate a business do you? For one, I don't want to ignore
history. There are times where, down the road, a dispute arises. Having
solid historical data can help during such times. Also, not all invoices are
paid at this time. Trying payments and overdue invoices is why I want to use
software to do this. If it was just a case of "the most recent invoice" I
could do this as easily on paper!


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.

I first tried to download and install Gnucash. Ran into issues with not
having the right version of guile. Sure I could spend time resolving
dependencies (and I assure you have in the past) but I'd much rather have
somebody else (Ubuntu) do that. I don't think I'm asking too much to expect,
after years and years, even slightly older versions of Gnucash to be
resilient and reliable but apparently I am!



> 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.

It's called convenience and ease of use. It's called what the customer wants
and the customer is... Well you know.


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.

How is moving something cluttering a UI? You know you could move it. Also,
having multiple places to do the same thing is something that abundant in
many software systems. Why the economy here? It really is not that difficult
to handle the concept of being able to edit terms in multiple places. If the
"we should limit things to only one place to avoid cluttering up UIs"
mentality were taken to the extreme the the only way to remove a file should
be to drop into a command line and issue an rm command - yet Nautilus and
countless other applications allow you to delete things. Indeed some might
consider the UI less cluttered if such occasionally done things were not on
the main UI itself under the menu but rather buried down to where you are
actually using terms. You see, there are many ways to look at things...
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