Lot link problems

[Geert Janssens]

On Thursday 27 March 2014 23:13:22 George Khouri wrote:
> Friends,
> I upgraded from gnucash 2.4 to 2.6 on linux. Without looking into the
> new features, I continued using 2.6. After posting many invoices and
> payments, I realized there were all these lot link entries in AR,
> which had never been there before.  I thought my partner had made
> some wrong entries, so I changed many of the lot links to invoices in
> the AR register. My (very) bad.
Oops. The lot links are rather sensitive to direct manipulation as you just experienced. (They're 
actually on my list of things to revisit and hopefully improve).

> Is there a way to reverse what I've
> done? Or, shall I ask, "what is the proper way to reverse what I've
> done?" I can't really go back to a backup, since much data entry has
> followed. I've searched and read the mailing list entries and haven't
> quite found the answer.
> Is it a matter of (in some order):
> 1.  Delete the lot link entry in AR,
> 2. Find the associated payments with the relevant invoices and
> reassign them to their proper invoices?
> 
That's probably the easiest way.

> Do I need to unpost the invoices first, or ever?
> Do I need to delete the payments?
No and no. After you have deleted the now broken lot link you should be able to reassign the 
payment to the proper invoice.

> 
> Also, in the  menu Actions->View Lots...  dialog, clicking on an open
> invoice in the list titled "Lots in this account" would show the item
> detail in a window below that in the same dialog yesterday. Now the
> lower window(s) in the dialog are gone. No upgrades/updates here since
> then. Is this a bug?  I tried deleting my preference in ~/.gnucash
> but the dialog has changed since yesterday.
It's not really gone but rather not visible. I have noticed as well that the dialog has some poor 
default layout settings. If you move your mouse cursor near the bottom edge of the dialog you 
will notice you can drag the separator between the top and bottom panes upwards to reveal 
the details again.

> BTW, is there documentation on what this dialog does? I couldn't find
> any.
No idea. I have mostly used this dialog to study lots in an account. It should be possible to use 
this in some limited way to manipulate lots but I never tried.

Geert