AU tax invoicing

[Geert Janssens]

On Friday 04 October 2013 16:36:31 David Cousens wrote:
> Thanks Geert,
> 
> I have changed my setup to reflect the changes you have suggested and
> it works as expected.
> In my case it is only a single user system so no drama but could have
> an impact on someone networking it in a company perhaps. Windows also
> requires
> you to  have administrator privileges to edit the system wide file in
> home/etc/ config.
> 
> Cheers
> David Cousens

You're welcome.

Actually afterwards I came up with another good reason not to use etc in the program directory: 
it will most likely be overwritten during a GnuCash update. The user.conf file in your .books 
directory will be preserved at that time.

Geert
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Geert Janssens [mailto:janssens-geert at telenet.be]
> Sent: Friday, 4 October 2013 1:54 AM
> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Cc: gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org; David
> Subject: Re: AU tax invoicing
> 
> On Thursday 03 October 2013 00:27:35 David wrote:
> > shane litherland <litherland.farm <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > >> Hi all,
> > >> 
> > >> re: post/thread by Karen
> > >> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.apps.gnucash.user/5070
> > >> 6
> > >> 
> > >> Ah... the several-day drama of setting up customised tax
> > >> invoices,
> > >> which >>I had to do basically every time Gnucash updated over the
> > >> past several years...
> > >> 
> > >> The config.user option was an improvement over editing/inserting
> > >> in
> > >> the gnucash reports folder, but still gave me issues along the
> > >> way...
> > >> 
> > >> But no more!
> > >> 
> > >> Now I've just downloaded to /home/.gnucash the lovely work
> > >> provided
> > >> via http://www.raid6.com.au/posts/gnucash_AU/
> > >> 
> > >> Thanks Dmitry et al - much tidier than my beginner hacking ever
> > >> was!
> > >> And - it seems to work fine!
> > >> added to config.user:
> > >> (load "/home/office/.gnucash/invoice-au.scm")
> > >> 
> > >> after downloading the two scm files to .gnucash
> > >> 
> > >> Opened up gnucash fine, could play with invoice layout. Am still
> > >> playing and intend to just save a custom version of it as per
> > >> saving any custom report.
> > >> 
> > >> One improvement I made in the invoice-au.eguile.scm though - I
> > >> added <strong>ABN:&nbsp</strong> to get "ABN: " showing before
> > >> company number (aka Australian Business Number) [lines 174 - 176
> > >> in
> > >> my file]
> > >> 
> > >>     <?scm (if coyid (begin ?>
> > >>     
> > >>       <strong>ABN:&nbsp</strong><strong><?scm:d coyid
> > >>       ?></strong><br>
> > >>     
> > >>     <?scm )) ?>
> > >> 
> > >> And it seems to still function fine
> > >> 
> > >> PS not sure why Karen had her original troubles with these scm
> > >> files as her link seems the same place I got them and they work
> > >> OK
> > >> for me, but I am on ubuntu12.04 not win so can't troubleshoot.
> > >> PPS Yes Derek's tip to keep a report open is handy.
> > >> 
> > >> -Shane.
> > 
> > Hi Shane and Karen
> > 
> > I think the problem is the file locations on Windows and Ubuntu are
> > different.  I am using Gnucash 2.4.13 on Windows 8 and have also
> > been
> > unable to get Dmitri's handiwork to work yet. Under Windows 8 the
> > executables for Gnucash (x86 version) are located at
> > 
> > "C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash" ( which appears to correspond to
> > the
> > /home/.gnucash location under Ubuntu) with subfolders /bin, /doc,
> > /etc, /lib, /share and /uninstall
> 
> Hi David, this is not quite true:
> C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash on Windows is not equivalent to
> /home/user/.gnucash on Ubuntu.
> 
> C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash maps to / instead.
> So C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\etc is equivalent to /etc and so on.
> > and the user data appears to have two possible locations
> > 
> > C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\GnuCash which is an empty folder
> 
> I don't think this is currently used. I'm not even sure how it gets
> there.
> > and
> > 
> > C:\Users\Username\.gnucash
> > 
> > which has subfolders
> > 
> >    /books (this contains references to books I have setup but not
> >    the
> > 
> > data files for them, i.e. files with extensions ".gnucash.gcm"),
> > 
> >    /checks,
> >    /translog
> > 
> > and contains the files
> > 
> >    accelerator-map,
> >    expressions-2.0 (empty),
> >    saved-reports-2.4 and
> >    stylesheets-2.0.
>