Open invoice from account entry

[Shane Litherland]

Thanks Lloyd,

added some thoughts of my own, maybe the existing search tools (Business
> customer > find invoice or similar for bills) could be used
behind-the-scenes for any given txn from the right-mouse-click options. 

I think the GUID's for any txn might be able to be sent to the search
tool, find the single match, then open it, based on what txn is
currently highlighted and mouse-clicked on...
?
I've said as much in the bug. I'm speculating, as I don't know
diddly-squat about the code behind the mouse-click or the search
dialogs. I might just be giving someone a headache. I hope not!

-shane.


On Sun, 2012-02-05 at 10:12 +0000, Lloyd Adams wrote:
> Enhancement request for this was filed yesterday.  For reference the request number is 669370.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Lloyd
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shane Litherland [mailto:litherland-farm at bigpond.com] 
> Sent: 05 February 2012 02:22
> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Cc: Geert Janssens; Derek Atkins; lloyd.adams at virgin.net
> Subject: Re: Open invoice from account entry
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I must echo Geert's comment :-) I guess over the time of using GNUcash, I've got accustomed to using the search option under the business tools, and let the idea fade somewhat. But it would be handy (save a bit of time). even if it was achieved via the A/P split (e.g. when viewing in an expense acct, jump to Liability acct, then to bill..??) this wouldn't necessarily speed things up but might give some ideas on how to implement in stages (eventually becoming an option straight from the expense split itself...?) ??
> 
> Lloyd, if you put in a bug/enhancement request, do post back with its number, I'd like to read/comment/follow it once its there :-)
> 
> regards,
> shane.
> 
> On Sat, 2012-02-04 at 12:00 -0500, gnucash-user-request at gnucash.org
> wrote:
> > Message: 10
> > Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:01:20 +0100
> > From: Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be>
> > To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> > Cc: Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com>
> > Subject: Re: Open invoice from account entry
> > Message-ID: <2494109.TEgbIEfR8Q at legolas.kobaltwit.lan>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
> > 
> > Op zaterdag 4 februari 2012 10:33:05 schreef Derek Atkins:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > On Sat, February 4, 2012 6:45 am, Lloyd Adams wrote:
> > > > Is there an simple way to open the invoice that is associated with
> > a
> > > > transaction directly from an entry in an account listing? I would
> > have
> > > > thought that it was something you would want to do often, but I
> > can't
> > > > see
> > > > anyway to do it. (gnucash 2.4.8 on Windows 7)
> > > 
> > > No, there is no way to do that.  Believe it or not, this is not an 
> > > oft-requested feature.  in fact I think you're the first one to ask
> > for
> > > it.  You can file an enhancement request at bugzilla, but I doubt
> > it'll
> > > get implemented anytime soon.
> > > 
> > I never mentioned it, but it is something I have missed from time to 
> > time as well and even considered implementing some time. So, yes, 
> > please file an enhancement request. I may get to it one day.
> > 
> > Geert
>