Issues with Invoicing in 2.6.12 on Win 7-64

[Geert Janssens]

On Tuesday 07 June 2016 14:08:01 Greg Feneis wrote:
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> Kind regards,
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> Greg Feneis
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> On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 3:53 AM, Geert Janssens
> <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
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> > On Sunday 05 June 2016 12:57:20 Greg Feneis wrote:
> > > ​It didn't look like this made it to the list, so I'm re-sending.
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> > > Hope it makes it this time.​
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> > It did make it to the list. However I didn't have time to answer
> > immediately and then forgot about it. I'll try now...
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> > > On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 1:07 PM, Greg Feneis <mfeneis at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Hi Folks,
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> > > > When I invoice a client, the items I invoice for are almost
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> > > > for hours that I work and expenses. It's very, very rare that
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> > > > something is taxable. Is there a way to make the X in the
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> > > > "Taxable?" column be disappeared by default?
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> > I'm not sure what effect the Taxable? column has exactly other than
> > enabling/disabling the tax related fields on the line.
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> > I don't think there's a way to disable it by default. As an
> > alternative have you tried to set the default tax table for your
> > customer(s) or the global default tax table to "None" ? That may
> > give you the same net effect on your invoices. Or perhaps not. In
> > that case please specify in more detail what is not working as it
> > should due to this column always being enabled.
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> ​GF: When I'm done entering a line, I hit enter and a new line is
> created and the cursor is placed in the date field.  By default, the
> new line appears with an "X" in the Taxable? field.  I wish that by
> default, when a new line is created, the X is not there by default.​
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I understood what your wish is. I also suggested an alternative approach to work around it. From 
your reply I couldn't figure out whether you tried it and whether that was sufficient ? Sometimes 
it takes a bit of creativity to work with gnucash...

Other than that I agree it's a user interaction anomaly and I don't know the motivation to 
implement it as such. Perhaps Derek knows, but he may not be around right now.

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> ​GF: Whenever I start a new invoice, Some columns are so narrow that
> the column header isn't legible.  I imagine this is a safe default
> arrangement, because not everyone's screen is wide enough to allow
> all of the columns to be expanded enough to view the column headers. 
> It would be great if when the column widths were adjusted, GC would
> remember these settings for all following invoices.
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I believe these columns are made that narrow because they expect only one single character as 
input (either an 'X' to enable/disable, or '$' vs '%' for the discount type, or '<', '=', '>' for 
discount how). I presume setting the column widths for these columns to show the full title was 
indeed considered a waste of space. And personally I still think it is.

> Now that I've described things more, it looks like I've come up with
> some features to request.  May I make an enhancement request?

Feel free to do so. Enhancement requests should go on our uservoice page:
https://gnucash.uservoice.com/forums/101223-feature-request

Make sure to enter one request per feature. You have suggested multiple in this mail.

Regards,

Geert