[GNC] Problem Editing Payment - Customer Job

[Adrien Monteleone]

After you re-create the payment, does it show as 'owned by' the Customer 
or the Job? (as before)

I'm going to hazard a guess this is due to the following:

In order to match payments, each payment and invoice need a common 
'owner'. There can be only one 'owner' of a document. (payment, invoice, 
bill) If I recall correctly, the Jobs feature is implemented by 
replacing the Customer/Vendor owner with the Job as owner. This still 
otherwise works, because a Job is tied 1:1 with a single 
Customer/Vendor. (you can't have the same Job associated with multiple 
Customers/Vendors)

I'm not sure if this is a bug 'as-code-error' as it is maybe an 
oversight to facilitate editing of a payment with a Job assigned due to 
design decisions. Certainly, I agree with the expectation that it should 
work regardless.

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A sidebar here is that a Job can't be assigned to both a Vendor and 
Customer. You *can* have two Jobs with the same name one assigned to 
each, but they aren't tied together in anyway.
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Regards,
Adrien

On 8/6/22 11:23 AM, Keith Fetterman wrote:
> Back in 2021, I reported an issue that I was having with editing an invoice payment if the invoice had a job associated with it. When I try to edit the payment, the payment dialog shows the job and not the customer, and I can not select the customer. This issue still exists in GnuCash 4.9.
> 
> Has anyone else encountered the issue? Does anyone else use jobs with invoices and have not experienced this problem?
> 
> I have to delete the payment and create a new one.
> 
> I submitted a Bugzilla bug (Bug 798210), but I haven’t seen any activity on the ticket since I posted it.