Issues with Invoicing in 2.6.12 on Win 7-64

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Sorry for the delayed response; I was on vacation out of the country and
didn't have much time to deal with lots of email.

More below..

Greg Feneis <mfeneis at gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 11:10 AM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
> wrote:
>
>> > ​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.​
>>
>> >
>>
>> 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...
>>
>
> ​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.  ​

Do you ever have taxable items?  If not, then just remove the Taxable
column from the invoice report?

>> 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.

Well, it was implemented as a toggle-switch using the available register
widgets.  That particular widget requires mouse entry to toggle.  It
seemed like the right solution at the time, as there wasn't a widget
that would allow tabbing into that would toggle between a list of items
(to limit the input).

Making the default setting an option would be one approach.  That would
let you set it to default to "off" instead of "on".  Of course, then
when you DID have a taxable entry you would need to use the mouse to
swap the field.

Another option would require changing the widget the allow tabbing into
it.  That would probably be more work.

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-derek

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