[GNC] Paying business vendor invoice: enter vendor's name twice

[Adrien Monteleone]

From the Help manual

7.10.1. New Bills

"Billing Info - Vendor - the issuing vendor. If you remember the company name you entered in the New Vendor window for this vendor, start to type it in this field and GnuCash will try auto complete it for you. Else, press the Select... button to access the Find Vendor window described in Section 7.9.2, “Find and Edit”. Highlight the vendor you are looking for with a click in the search results, then press the Select button.”

Notice the ‘else’ at the beginning of the second sentence. Only use that select button to open a find dialog if GnuCash doesn’t manage to give you the desired vendor in an auto-complete list.

And the last sentence saying to "press the Select button" is for the find dialog search results, not the New invoice dialog.

Regards,
Adrien

> On Apr 27, 2019, at 11:10 AM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
> 
> Just curious about this behavior that I finally noticed while paying vendor
> invoices this morning.
> 
> Selecting Business -> New bill produces a dialog box with a text entry
> widget for the vendor's name. When I enter the name and click the 'Select'
> button, a new dialog pops up asking me to enter the vendor's name (again),
> find it, then re-select it.
> 
> Why isn't the first selection of the vendor's name accepted and the
> following action is to open an A/P transaction tab?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Rich