Can't Change BillingID in Invoice

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

On Sat, December 7, 2013 11:57 am, Mark Phillips wrote:
> I was experimenting with using the business features of gnucash 2.4.13 and
> I did the following
>
> 1. Created a vendor
> 2. Created a bill, but did NOT enter the billingID
> 3 Created a job for this bill
> 4. Posted the bill (invoice) to a/p.
>
> I then realized that I had missed adding in the billingId, so I tried to
> go
> back to the bill and edit it. The cursor is active in the billingId field
> when I open the bill, but I cannot type anything in that field.
>
> I tried
> 1. uposting the bill, and still cannot edit the billingId field
> 2. making the bill inactive, and still cannot edit the billingid field.
>
> Is there some reason I cannot edit the billingID field?

Because you missed a step.  After you unpost the bill you need to click on
the "Edit" button (in the toolbar) to pop up te "Edit Bill" dialog where
you can edit the metadata of the bill (e.g. vendor, BillingID, etc)

> Thanks,
>
> Mark

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-derek

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