outstanding accounts receivables?

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

On Mon, August 8, 2011 1:37 pm, John Layman wrote:
> I recently posted an invoice with the wrong invoice number and discovered
> that I could not subsequently unpost and edit the invoice number.  I
> considered altering the XML, but couldn't easily identify what to change.

Unpost the invoice, then click on the "Edit" button in the toolbar.
Then you can edit the InvoiceID.

-derek

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gnucash-user-bounces+john.layman=laymanandlayman.com at gnucash.org
> [mailto:gnucash-user-bounces+john.layman=laymanandlayman.com at gnucash.org]
> On
> Behalf Of Maf King
> Sent: Monday, August 08, 2011 4:16 AM
> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org; tonyn999 at gmail.com
> Subject: Re: outstanding accounts receivables?
>
> Hi Tony, Axel,
>
> AFAIK, you can not delete an invoice.  What yo can do, though is re-use
> them, by editing the customer details and invoice number etc. and then
> posting. (ie invoice 000001 becomes invoice 004567 or whatever is next in
> your sequence)
>
> another tip for selecting all invoices etc. is to use "matches regex" and
> then "." (full stop, period, decimal point YMMV, no quotes!) in the "find"
> dialogue.
>
> Maf.
>
>
> On Sunday 07 Aug 2011 22:39:15 Axel Essbaum wrote:
>> Hi Tony,
>>
>> I think it's impossible to delete invoices in GnuCash.
>>
>> Someone please correct me if I'm wrong because I have about 20 bogus
>> invoices I'd LOVE to get ride of ;-)
>>
>> - Axel
>>
>> On Aug 7, 2011, at 23:32, Anthony Nelson wrote:
>> > Hi Axel,
>> >
>> > That is a great tip.  It works perfectly.   Even so, in the interests
>> of
>> > better usability I wonder whether a there should be a standard report?
>> > Quickbooks does have this, and it seems like it would be something
>> > that could be easily implemented in GnuCash.
>> >
>> > On a related topic, when I follow your steps I find a five invoices
>> > numbers (000001, 000002, 000003, 000005, 000006) that are dated back
>> > in
>> > 2008 (when I first started using GnuCash).  These invoices are not
>> > posted and are for a zero dollar amount.  I'd like to delete them so
>> > that they do not show up on the invoice report you showed me how to
>> run.
>
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