[GNC] Altering the defaults for printing invoices

[Adrien Monteleone]

You *can* save those options, but this does change the workflow to get 
the invoice data in the report.

After saving the report config, to print a new invoice with that config 
you have to go to Reports > Saved Report Configurations, then go to 
Options and select your invoice.

I agree though, that ideally, there should be a way to save your options 
as the new default so that such a cumbersome workflow is not required 
and all the many places one can generate an invoice report with a single 
click would *just work*.

Note, you presently *should* be able to edit the default invoice 
stylesheet to get some of these to stick.

Regards,
Adrien

On 1/4/21 2:07 PM, Dave Hayes wrote:
> In the normal user case, when printing an invoice, one clicks "Options"
> in the toolbar and is presented with 4 tabs of choices before printing
> one's invoice to send.
> 
> There has never (to my knowledge, and I've been using gnucash for years) been a
> way to save these as defaults, causing most users to have to slog through 4
> tabs of options and redo them for each invoice.
> 
> This might be especially painful if you use custom CSS like I do but you got
> even more custom with it than I did.
> 
> On FreeBSD, I have a solution which I apply on each release (this is not for
> the timid):
> 
> --- invoice.scm	2021-01-04 11:58:52.211210000 -0800
> +++ realpath.scm	2021-01-04 11:56:56.833457000 -0800
> @@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
>   (define (addif pred . data) (if pred data '()))
>   
>   (define base-css "/* advanced users only */
> +.invoice-title { font-size: 125%; font-weight: bold }
>   .div-align-right { float: right; }
>   .div-align-right .maybe-align-right { text-align: right }
>   .entries-table * { border-width: 1px; border-style:solid; border-collapse:
> collapse} @@ -235,12 +236,12 @@
>     (gnc:register-inv-option
>      (gnc:make-simple-boolean-option
>       (N_ "Display Columns") (N_ "Discount")
> -    "k" (N_ "Display the entry's discount?") #t))
> +    "k" (N_ "Display the entry's discount?") #f))
>   
>     (gnc:register-inv-option
>      (gnc:make-simple-boolean-option
>       (N_ "Display Columns") (N_ "Taxable")
> -    "l" (N_ "Display the entry's taxable status?") #t))
> +    "l" (N_ "Display the entry's taxable status?") #f))
>   
>     (gnc:register-inv-option
>      (gnc:make-simple-boolean-option
> @@ -341,7 +342,7 @@
>      (gnc:make-text-option
>       (N_ "Display") (N_ "Extra Notes")
>       "u" (N_ "Extra notes to put on the invoice.")
> -    (G_ "Thank you for your patronage!")))
> +    (G_ "Thank you for the opportunity to assist you!")))
>   
>     (gnc:register-inv-option
>      (gnc:make-multichoice-option
> 
> Naturally, since invoice.scm changes each release (and sometimes changes
> pathnames), this has to be done on each upgrade of gnucash.
> 
> Given that background my question is this: are there ever any plans to change
> gnucash's behavior so a default set of options are savable by a user?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
>