Posted invoice 'memo' field

[Nik]

Thanks Derek,


On 05/10/2011 11:49 PM, Derek Atkins wrote:
> 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'm not sure it does.  At this point there is no way to get your Invoice
> Notes into the transaction in the CoA.
>

So, that brings me back to my original question:

If I were to code a change in GnuCash to have my Invoice notes visible 
in the A/R account, what would be the most "logical", "correct" or 
"desirable" way to do that?

a) copy the invoice notes into the post memo field by default?
b) provide a GnuCash option to copy the invoice notes into the post memo
c) provide a new (possibly optional) field/column in the A/R account 
view that shows the original invoice notes?
d) other?

Cheers!
Nik

>
> -derek
>
>> 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
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