Employee Voucher - Tax Table Issue

[Geert Janssens]

On Friday 20 May 2016 12:40:26 Derek Atkins wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be> writes:
> > On Thursday 19 May 2016 12:23:57 nssimpson wrote:
> >> Hi Michael, thanks for your reply. I am very happy to involve
> >> myself
> >> in helping a developer to fix the what I'm sure is a bug.
> >> 
> >> Cheers
> >> 
> >> Nick
> > 
> > I missed that bug when it got filed 2 years ago and I do work on the
> > business features from time to time. While something is clearly
> > wrong, I can't tell for sure
> > which way it should be fixed. I'm not using employee vouchers
> > myself.
> > 
> > This feature was originally developed by Derek. I'd like to hear his
> > opinion on this before I dig into this.
> 
> A bit of background for ns...  All the business features use the same
> underlying internal object, called GncInvoice.  Whether it's a
> "Customer Invoice", "Vendory Bill", or "Employee Expense Voucher" is
> completely based on the "owner" of the GncInvoice object.  It's a way
> of sub-typing, so the interface changes based on the assignment.
> 
> This sounds like a bug in the (relatively new) business auto-complete
> code.  When I originally wrote it, there was no auto-complete.  It
> sounds like Bill and Voucher are somehow linked, which shouldn't be
> the case IMHO.
> 
> There are no tax tables in an expense voucher because the intended
> functonality is an employee filing receipts for expenses.  At least
> for me, whether there is tax or not is completely unimportant to me
> getting my money back from my employer.
> 
> So I see two options:
> 
> 1) unlink Vendor Bill and Employee Voucher, or
> 2) make sure not to copy in data for non-existing columns when you
> complete.

Thanks for the background Derek,

I'll see what I can do here.

Geert