[GNC] Bills in Gnucash

[Adrien Monteleone]

I just played with toggling that preference back and forth and as I do so, the ’New Invoice’ button appears and disappears accordingly. It seems this is the only button affected unless there is a special toolbar somewhere I’m not triggering. (when viewing a bill/invoice there are 2 ’New Invoice’ buttons, one is the generic version, the other is tied to the same ‘current owner’ of the viewed bill/invoice - that one doesn’t toggle.)

The Business menu remains visible in all cases.

Certainly, if one needs to manually manage A/R or A/P or not even use them, those features would be nice to hide. I don’t think there is any danger posed however by their visibility or existence unless one tries to both use those features *and* manually make transactions in those special accounts.

Regards,
Adrien

> On Apr 1, 2019, at 10:21 PM, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Back in 2014 I used to think that going to Edit > Preferences > Business and checking Enable Extra Buttons was about enabling business features, but I was told then that it is only about adding some un-named buttons on some menus that were never documented.  I agree that there should be a feature to turn off business features for those of us that don't use them, because sometimes they cause grief if accidentally or ignorantly activated.
> 
> David Carlson
> 
> On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 8:55 PM Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
> Thanks David,
> 
> I was looking for that the other day and somehow glanced over it. Indeed, it is still there in 3.4. (about to install 3.5 shortly) I suppose, then, since preferences are user rather than book based that’s why the buttons were already there. I didn’t try to start GC from a fresh user perspective. I’d have to try an old copy of 2.6, but I seem to recall this being labeled as ‘enable business features’ (which also added the special accounts and added the Business menu) not just ‘enable extra buttons’, but my memory could be faulty.
> 
> Regards,
> Adrien
> 
> > On Apr 1, 2019, at 7:33 PM, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > So far none of you have mentioned going to Edit > Preferences > Business and checking Enable Extra Buttons.  Back in the Release 2.6.xx days that was necessary to even see the buttons to create invoices or whatever that I have never looked for because I was not using them.
> > 
> > David Carlson
> > 
> > On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 5:39 PM Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Mar 31, 2019, at 3:35 AM, David T. via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > > Oh.  Let me go to nabble to figure out that you're replying to my post... now, having closed all the spammy windows for super resume...
> > 
> > Or just use e-mail instead of Nabble? (or I’m sure something like uBlock Origin could zap those windows before they come into existence)
> > 
> > > Having the new account assistant create a specific set of accounts IN NO WAY is "enabling business features." It's just a bunch of accounts. The features are always "enabled." We might as well speak of "enabling" double entry features in Gnucash when we open a register in transaction view. 
> > > It is convenient, to be sure, to have these accounts created for me, but this is in no way something in preferences, as was implied in the message to which I was responding. 
> > > There is NO special setting. To quote Monty Python, there is NO severed head beneath the bed. 
> > > David T.
> > 
> > I just opened a new file, chose the default ‘common accounts’ which did not include A/R and A/P and sure enough, the “Business” menu is visible as was the “New Invoice” button. (I didn’t go through the trouble of creating an invoice or bill and seeing what would happen)
> > 
> > This was not always the case, certainly not at some point in the 2.6 series. I distinctly remember having to ‘enable business features’ to both get the Business menu as well as making the New Invoice button visible. I think doing so also created the special A/R and A/P accounts in my tree.
> > 
> > Perhaps the business features which were originally an add-on module were finally integrated into the main program at some point.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Adrien
> > _______
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