bulk operations?

DaveC49 davidcousens at bigpond.com
Sun May 7 20:13:34 EDT 2017


Hi Eric,

While the bulk operations are not available, by using the cutomer and vendor
features in the business options your regular customers and vendors can be
selected from lists of customers/vendors. This will create some uniformity
for transactions created using invoices however the customer/vendor
information is still not a part of the transaction and doesn't appear in the
description field of the transaction (unless you copy it in while creating
the invoice/bill).

Invoices and bills are a separate class from the transactions to the
accounts they reference inside Gnucash and the customer/vendor information
is stored with the invoice/bill information and not with the transactions
they create so it is not possible to easily extend this outside the business
features. The reason  is that the transaction class has no customer/vendor
field as such, only a description field which although it usually does
contain text which contains the customer or vendor it may also contain any
other information the user desires to add about the transaction. The
transaction also has a link to the associated invoice where the
customer/vendor is stored.

In priciple it would be possible to implement a Find/Replace mode in the 
Edit/Find feature but this does not exist at present. If this is critical to
you, you could create a bug request asking for it as a feature for the
longer term which will at least raise it with the developers.

David Cousens





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