Posting invoices and currency conversion dialog - bug?

Derek Atkins derek at ihtfp.com
Tue Nov 8 10:16:52 EST 2011


Hi,

On Tue, November 8, 2011 10:07 am, Maf. King wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> Since using GC 2.4.x, I've been slightly annoyed by a couple of dialogs
> that
> sometimes come up when posting new invoices - the the 2 attached
> screengrabs
> show the dialogs in question.  As far as I can tell, there is only one
> currency used in the data file, the prefs. all use Locale (GB).  I'm using
> SuSE 11.4, but I don't suppose that it is relevant.
>
> I initially thought that it was to do with the account file being created
> in
> 2.2.9 and ported forwards into 2.4, given some of the visible changes in
> terms
> of duplicating invoices and auto-fill/memorising of lines that make the
> whole
> process of entinging invoices so much more pleasant these days.... in
> other
> words, I thought that it might just go away in time as the base invoices
> were
> "updated".
>
> However, while entering a batch of invoices today, I saw the light.
> It has been my custom to put in lines on the invoices as "notes only" with
> no
> quantity or price info  (I presently generate invoices in LibreOffice, but
> have dilligently typed in the notes lines as invoice lines, with a view to
> (one day, perhaps) using the MySQL backend to auto-generate a PDF or
> somthing.)
>
> Anyway, these lines in the GC invoice don't have an entry in the "Invoice
> Account" column, and that gives rise to the currency conversion dialog, I
> suppose GC is trying to convert  an assumed price of 0.00GBP to
> 0.00UNDEFINED_CURRENCY and asking for an exchange rate?
>
> I've done some experiments with putting in a transfer account to a notes
> line,
> and that stops the questions being asked. - GC doesn't need quantity or
> price
> data, just an "other account".
>
> Is this a GC bug, ie there shouldn't be a conversion at all to a
> non-existant
> account - or is this another example where my useage is buggy?
> 2.2.x didn't do this - but it didn't do other useful stuff, either!
>
> I've just been dissmissing the dialogs (the invoices seem to post OK) - am
> I
> likely to be storing up trouble for some time in the future?

IMHO this is a bug.  If you do not have an account then it shouldn't ask
for an exchange rate.  And IMHO I think it's perfectly valid to have a
line-item without an account, and indeed I've been using that feature for
years (although not with 2.2 or 2.4).

> TIA for your words of wisdom
> Maf.

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-derek

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