Gnucash re-posting bill

[Chachi Francis]

hi Geert,

I'll be keen on that now. I have experimented and seen exactly what
you said in your reply.

Regards,

Fr

On 5/27/15, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be> wrote:
> Hi Francis,
>
> On Wednesday 27 May 2015 11:17:09 Chachi Francis wrote:
>> helo people.
>>
>> i am using GnuCash 2.6.5 on Windows 7 and i have noticed at least
>> twice that it is re-posting a bill that was already paid.
>>
>> say i create a bill as accounts payable, it appears under "Business --
>> Bills due reminder".
>>
>> then i pay the bill, and the bill disappears from the "Bills due
>> reminder", which is ok.
>>
>> but miraculously, after some time, say 1 month, the same bill again
>> appears under " Bills due reminder".
>>
>> has anyone experienced this? any ideas? solution/patch?
>>
> The only reason I can think of a bill "reappears" under "Bills due
> reminder" is if you manually unpost and re-post it.
>
> At that point the link between the bill and any payment is lost. This
> behaviour is new in the 2.6.x series. Older versions of gnucash retained
> the link to payments even when unposting a bill. This was the source of
> several bugs so the behaviour has changed as of gnucash 2.6.0.
>
> You can find a more elaborate explanation and a way to remedy the unpaid
> invoices here:
> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Correcting_Business_Transaction_Mistakes#Unposting_and_reposting_a_paid_invoice_loses_its_payment
>
> Does this address your issue ?
>
> Regards,
>
> Geert
>