[GNC] re-adding billable expenses to an invoice

[Christoph R]

> I THOUGHT the query was created every time, but it's possible the query
> only includes the chargeback items before it is posted the first time.
> If you've posted and then unposted the invoice, it's certainly possible
> the logic will not include new chargebacks.

Adding chargebacks to an posted and then unposted invoice worked for me in Gnucash 3.2

Cheers,
Christoph

> Am 11.09.2018 um 17:25 schrieb Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU>:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Matthew Pounsett <matt at conundrum.com> writes:
> 
>> On 6 September 2018 at 12:04, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
>> 
>>    Matthew Pounsett <matt at conundrum.com> writes:
>> 
>>> I accidentally flubbed some keyboard entry while putting together an
>>> invoice and messed up a billable expense item which had been
>>    automatically
>>> added when the invoice was created.  Since there is no "Undo" the best
>>> option seemed to be to delete the entry and start over, but I can't find
>>    a
>>> way to instruct GnuCash to add billable items to an invoice.  It seems
>>    to
>>> do it automatically at invoice creation, and no other way.
>>> 
>>> Am I missing something?
>> 
>>    When you are editing the invoice, just click in the "Billable" column
>>    when adding the line-item to mark it as billable.
>> 
>> I think you've misunderstood the question.   There are already billable
>> expenses in the system.  I'm generating the invoice in which those billable
>> items will be passed on to the client.
> 
> Yes, clearly I did...
> 
>> I need to re-add the billable expenses to the invoice.  There doesn't appear
>> to be a way to do that... it looks like they are only added when the invoice
>> is first created.. I can't find any button, menu, or anything else that would
>> trigger adding billable expenses to an existing invoice.
> 
> I honestly don't recall if there is a way to add additional billable
> charge-back items to an already-created invoice.  I wrote that original
> code over 15 years ago; I'd have to search through it again to remind
> myself how it works (and see what changes may have been made).
> 
> The way it is supposed to work is that when the invoice is opened for
> the correct customer (or correct job), it will find all items and
> chargebacks.  Then you need to manually "add" those chargebacks to this
> particular invoice by clicking on the "included" column.
> 
> I THOUGHT the query was created every time, but it's possible the query
> only includes the chargeback items before it is posted the first time.
> If you've posted and then unposted the invoice, it's certainly possible
> the logic will not include new chargebacks.
> 
> Also, make sure the chargeback == invoice owner (customer and/or job).
> If the chargeback is to a job but the invoice is a customer, it
> definitely wont show up.
> 
> -derek
> 
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