AU tax invoicing

[shane litherland]

Hi all,

re: post/thread by Karen
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.apps.gnucash.user/50706

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.