Open invoice from account entry

[Derek Atkins]

Shane,

There is no need to go through the search at that point, as the posted
transaction already has a reference to the invoice.  So GnuCash can
programatically find the invoice from the posted transactions.

-derek

On Sun, February 5, 2012 9:07 am, Shane Litherland wrote:
> 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
>>
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