enhancement requests

[Geert Janssens]

On Friday 14 March 2014 11:54:38 Derek Atkins wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> "dave at peregrinedesign" <dave at peregrinedesign.com> writes:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Thank you for your development of Gnucash. I have recently switched
> > from Quickbooks.
> > 
> > There are several requests I have, but the most prominent in my mind
> > would be the ability to combine multiple customer payments into one
> > bank deposit. It is very inconvenient to reconcile and perform other
> > bookkeeping tasks when the bank statement shows one combined deposit
> > but Gnucash has to show each one separately.
> > 
> > I have seen this as a request for Gnucash elsewhere. The method is
> > to
> > assign payments received to a holding deposit account then run the
> > deposit combining all payments.
> 
> This is the best way to do it.
> 
> Your only other option (if you are using 2.6) would be to create a
> split transaction and then apply each split as a payment.
> 
Unless I misunderstand your suggestion, I don't think this will work. The assign as payment 
feature takes the selected transaction and deletes all splits except for the one in the 
current register. So there will remain only one split that will be assigned as payment. 
There's only a limited scope in which the assign as payment feature is useful.

> > The other thing, while I’m at it, which is a big nuisance to me, is
> > the way invoice customization is handled. I have to manually
> > customize every invoice to use the style I have modified (can’t
> > modify default). That feature needs attention.
> 
> The best way to handle this is to set up your invoice report as you
> like it and then keep it open (don't close the report).  Then when
> you want to print a new invoice you edit the report options and
> choose the new invoice.
> 
> Another option which *may* work is to save it as a saved report and
> there *may* be a way to specify that as the default invoice print
> report.  But I'm not sure that works.
> 
I'm afraid not. Saved report configurations are unfortunately not taken into account for the 
default print report.

> > Thanks again for any consideration to these requests.
> > 
Sorry to disappoint twice :(

Geert