Issues with Invoicing in 2.6.12 on Win 7-64

[Greg Feneis]

On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 11:10 AM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
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> On Tuesday 07 June 2016 14:08:01 Greg Feneis wrote:
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> > ​See my reply below...​
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> > On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 3:53 AM, Geert Janssens
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> > > On Sunday 05 June 2016 12:57:20 Greg Feneis wrote:
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> > > > ​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
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> > > 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>
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> > > > > 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
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> > > 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
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> > > alternative have you tried to set the default tax table for your
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> > > customer(s) or the global default tax table to "None" ? That may
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> > > give you the same net effect on your invoices. Or perhaps not. In
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> > > that case please specify in more detail what is not working as it
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> > > 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
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> > new line appears with an "X" in the Taxable? field. I wish that by
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> > 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
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​GF:  Thanks for the suggestion, but no matter how the tax table is set up,
If I leave the X in the Taxable? field, then when the invoice is printed,
it marks the item with a "T" in the Taxable column.  I don't want items to
be marked taxable when they are not taxable.  ​


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> Other than that I agree it's a user interaction anomaly and I don't know
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> > ​GF: Whenever I start a new invoice, Some columns are so narrow that
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> > the column header isn't legible. I imagine this is a safe default
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> > arrangement, because not everyone's screen is wide enough to allow
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> > all of the columns to be expanded enough to view the column headers.
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> > It would be great if when the column widths were adjusted, GC would
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> > 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.
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> > Now that I've described things more, it looks like I've come up with
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> > some features to request. May I make an enhancement request?
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> Feel free to do so. Enhancement requests should go on our uservoice page:
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> https://gnucash.uservoice.com/forums/101223-feature-request
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> Make sure to enter one request per feature. You have suggested multiple in
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> Regards,
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> Geert
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