AP Bills Not Marked "Paid"

[Derek Atkins]

Blackhawke <blackhawke at vetl.org> writes:

>> Maybe you can use the Lot Viewer to look at the lots in the account
>> and see what the balances are?
>
> Hurm... Well I think you've just exceeded my knoweldge of the program.
> How do you look at the lots?

Actions -> View Lots

>> FYI, a "closed" invoice is purely based on the Lot Balance.  For
>> an invoice to be "closed" it's associated Lot must have a balance
>> of 0.
>> 
>> This means you /might/ need to go and re-enter all your payments again
>> back to when it started failing.   Unfortunately.  There's no other
>> way to "force it" because you need to get the lots balanced out.
>
> Well, let's hope it doesn't come to that.
>
> I've seen a number of message threads on the forum boards about this
> problem. Maybe it's time to introduce some database tools to deal with
> some of these kinds of problems. I mean it's one thing to go in and
> manually re-enter a handful of transactions, it's entirely another to
> have to do so in a database going back years. 
>
> Just a suggestion for the future. :)

And a suggestion right back at you:   When you start noticing a
problem like this you should stop and fix the problem instead of
continuing on as if nothing is wrong.

> -=Blackhawke

-derek

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