Inactive AR

[winenvine]

On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 1:34 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:

> Terence <winenvine at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > On Friday, September 07, 2012 07:35 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:
> >> Terence <winenvine at gmail.com> writes:
> >>
> >>> Hello All,
> >>>
> >>> Sometimes I have to make some invoices inactive, but what I have found
> >>> is those inactive invoices still appear in the AR ageing report.
> >>> Is there a way to really delete them?  Thanks.
> >> Inactive means they wont show up in searches.  Once you post it there is
> >> no reason to make it inactive.
> >>
> >> If they are POSTED then they are real transactions and will definitely
> >> show up in reports like the Aging report.  To stop that you would need
> >> to unpost the invoice, making it "unreal".
> >>
> >> I guess the question is what are you trying to accomplish by making the
> >> invoice "inactive"?  What were you expecting that checkbox to do for
> >> you?
> >>
> > I did exactly that by unposting and putting an invoice inactive. But
> > when I ran a AR ageing report, there are still AR being inactive
> > showing in the report.
>
> Again, Inactive has nothing to do with reports.  Inactive ONLY affects
> whether the invoice will show up when you search for it using Business
> -> Invoice -> Find.
>
> If an invoice is showing in an AR aging report then that means the
> invoice is still on the books.  It means you did NOT unpost it.
>
> > T Wong
>
> -derek
>
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Thanks. I'll check again.