Posted invoice 'memo' field

[Nik]

Hi Frank,

Thank you for your explanation. I had no idea that "Accumulate Splits" 
affected the handling of invoice notes and the memo field.

So for the moment, I guess I need to understand the "Accumulate Splits" 
option better to determine whether I really want it enabled or not. :o)

I left it checked because:
a) it was enabled by default
b) it sounded like a reasonable thing
c) when I first tried it, it seemed to produce the correct results in 
the actual transactions (or at least, did not generate incorrect 
results). :o)

Thanks again for the explanation :o)

Sadly, I can't yet understand how your suggestion would work - but on 
first reading, it seems that I would lose the feature I really want - 
which is that information I enter when I create an invoice is visible in 
the A/R once the invoice has been posted.

I'll have a play with GnuCash and the various posting options to further 
understand this behaviour.

Cheers!
Nik

On 05/09/2011 08:47 PM, Frank H. Ellenberger wrote:
> Hi Nik,
>
> Am Freitag, 6. Mai 2011 um 05:42:42 schrieb Nik:
>> Q1: Is there a way to enter information into the invoice such as PO
>> number that will be visible in the A/R listing once the invoice has been
>> posted?
> If you do neither enter a description nor check "Accumulate Splits?" the
> invoice details appear in your A/R as splits of the transaction. Otherwise
> the details are overwritten by the posting invoice description.
>
> Because this is not the first time where I hear about this problem, I think we
> should change GnuCashs behavior in the following way:
>
> If "Accumulate Splits?" is unchecked, put the post invoice description in the
> memo field of the transaction or in the
> A/R split for invoices resp.
> A/P split for bills and expense vouchers
> instead of the memo fields of all splits.
>
> Further suggestions, e.g. update of the documentation?
>
> Can you file a bug report
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GnuCash with summary "Post
> description of invoice/bill/expense voucher should not overwrite the
> descriptions of the details" to the bisiness component?
>
> Frank