[GNC] Custom invoices don't work after upgrade

[Christopher Lam]

Going forward, it will be useful to attach your custom invoice and we can
offer better feedback.

On Fri, 3 Jul 2020, 12:53 am Geert Janssens, <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
wrote:

> I'm sorry your distro pulled the rug from under you at this crucial
> moment. However if it's that
> crucial perhaps you should revert your system to a backup before the
> upgrade, do your invoice
> work and then when the pressure is off, look at upgrading again and what's
> needed to get
> your custom template compatible with gnucash 3.x.
>
> Closer to your question then - you provide little detail on your custom
> template. However
> assuming it's based on an existing invoice template, perhaps you can start
> from the newer
> version of that template and reapply only your changes ?
>
> Regards,
>
> Geert
>
> Op donderdag 2 juli 2020 18:04:37 CEST schreef lomax at clickworkorange.com:
> > On Thu, 2020-07-02 at 17:37 +0200, Frank H. Ellenberger wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Am 02.07.20 um 17:01 schrieb
> > > lomax at clickworkorange.com
> > >
> > > > On Thu, 2020-07-02 at 13:32 +0100,
> > > > lomax at clickworkorange.com
> > > >
> > > >  wrote:
> > > > > My custom invoice template that I've used for many years stopped
> > > > > working after upgrading to 3.4 as part of a dist-upgrade. I had
> > > > > to
> > > > > remove a few things such as
> > >
> > > also 3.4 is several years old. If you prefer to stay on a
> > > distribution
> > > shipping such old program versin, you should consider to use
> > > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Flatpak
> > > .
> > >
> > > > I have compared this with the shipped reports (e.g. taxinvoice.scm)
> > > > and
> > > > it looks correct. So, a few hours killed, no progress. Any
> > > > suggestions?
> > >
> > > Yes, you should compare the shipped reports, but of a *recent*
> > > GnuCash
> > > version 3.11 or 4.0. ISTR they got several improvements in between.
> > >
> > > Regards
> > > Frank
> >
> > Thanks Frank, but I really just need to get my invoice generated and
> > sent out. I have no problem staying with the distro version, even if
> > it's old, as long as my template works. It has bank details, address etc
> as
> > well as a few other bells & whistles such as my logo and tax reg. info -
> > all of which are important and tedious to replicate in e.g. LibreOffice
> > Writer. In fact in desperation I tried to build an earlier version of
> > GnuCash just to be able to do this, but found that my distro ships
> goffice
> > 0.10.10 while GnuCash 2.6.19 would only build with goffice >= 0.7.0 and <
> > 0.9.0. Can't be bothered to dig deeper so I'm just going to get drunk
> > instead.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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