How to set Description on A/R when importing invoices

[Arnd Vehling]

Hello Mike,

thanx for the help. My cvs exporter populates the memo field. I just did 
start an import to double check this. The importer is showing a 
populated memo field in the preview but the memo field in the A/R 
account and description in the sales account are both empty.

I am using "GnuCash 2.6.1 (This copy was built from rev 76cba80+ on 
2014-02-19)" because i cant get the latest version compiled on ubuntu. I 
did follow the wiki for  ubuntu 14.04 but configure always bails out 
with "error: guile-config required but not found"

And guile config doesnt seem to be included in debian/ubuntu since quite 
some time and i have no idea how to work around this.

cheers,

   Arnd

On 07.09.2014 16:58, Mike Evans wrote:
> On Sun, 07 Sep 2014 12:05:41 +0800
> Arnd Vehling <Arnd at Vehling.Com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> i did write myself a python script for mass importing/creating invoices
>> which results in entries being created in Accounts Receivable.
>>
>> My problem now is that the entries in Accounts Receivable and in the
>> relating sales account only contain the invoice number and the customer
>> name. As i cant auto-create customers i use a generic name for nearly
>> all customers. So its really hard to figure out who payed what.
>>
>> The description line i import contains all the information i need but
>> its not copied to either the A/R nor the relating sales account.
>>
>> I would like to have the same information i set in the description field
>> of the invoice also being set in the description of the refering entry
>> in the sales account.
>>
>> So, is there ANY beside changing the gnucash source to achieve this?
>> Maybe by having a script using the database, selecting the description
>> text from the invoice table and then update the corresponding entry for
>> the sales account using the (uniq) invoice number?
>>
>> cheers & Thanx for the great software,
>>
>>     Arnd
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>
> Hello
>
> The Memo field can be set when posting the invoice to the A/R account.
> I have some Python for parsing my ebay mails and creating invoices/bills, if I post the bill/invoice in Python I have:
>
> bill.PostToAccount(payable_account, bill_date, bill_date, "MEMO NOTES GO HERE", True, False)
>
> There is only one Memo field and there may be multiple lines in your invoice, you'd have to choose one or concatenate them I suppose.
>
> I also auto-create customers/vendors from the ebay mail.
>
> https://github.com/EvansMike/pycash/tree/master/ebay2gnuCash
> Note: The code there is a little out of date and quite possibly broken.
>
> Mike Evans
>
>
>