How to set Description on A/R when importing invoices

[Colin Law]

On 7 September 2014 11:33, Arnd Vehling <Arnd at vehling.com> wrote:
> 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"

I assume it is 2.6.3 that you are trying to build, not the actual
latest code.  I had no trouble building 2.6.3 on 14.04 after
sudo apt-get build-dep gnucash
sudo apt-get install libdbd-{sqlite3,pgsql,mysql}  (as appropriate, if
using a database)
and for building from the tar file
sudo apt-get install swig
I did have to disable some errors when compiling, using
../configure --prefix=/path/to/install/to/gnucash
--enable-compile-warnings --with-html-engine=webkit
--disable-error-on-warning

Colin

>
> 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
>>
>>
>>
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