[GNC] Fixing incorrect Vendor for invoices

Derek Atkins derek at ihtfp.com
Sat Aug 27 15:51:54 EDT 2022


No, this behavior is by design.

-derek
Sent using my mobile device. Please excuse any typos.
On August 27, 2022 14:13:37 Eric Hammond <eric at jehammond.net> wrote:

> Hi Derek,
>
> So this is a "hidden" feature!
> On the unposted invoice, Billing Information panel, the Customer field has 
> an "Edit..." button, which to me means I can select the customer.
> Instead, it only allows altering the Customer information.
>
> Currently the proper way is to go to the top GnuCash ribbon and select 
> "Edit Invoice" which then allows the proper "Customer ... Select" option.
>
> This is very non-intuitive: I can't think of any reason I would want to 
> edit the basic Customer information from an invoice.
> Possibly a fix for a later release?
>
> Thanks for your help,
> Eric
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com>
> Sent: Friday, August 26, 2022 4:26 PM
> To: Eric Hammond <eric at jehammond.net>
> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Subject: RE: [GNC] Fixing incorrect Vendor for invoices
>
> HI,
>
> You want to make sure you SELECT vendor, not EDIT vendor.
> There is a difference!
>
> -derek
>
> On Fri, August 26, 2022 5:30 pm, Eric Hammond wrote:
>> Thanks Derek,
>>
>> This worked, but it is really tricky:
>> Editing the vendor pops up (apparently) the actual Vendor information
>> "card"
>> I changed the Vendor name, and found I now had two Vendor cards with
>> the same name and different ID numbers.
>> Which showed the wrong Vendor in other Bills.
>> Thankfully I had not saved the file, so I bailed and tried again.
>> I discovered that I had to simultaneously change the vendor's name AND
>> ID to the correct one in the edit form.
>>
>> Eric
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com>
>> Sent: Friday, August 26, 2022 12:48 PM
>> To: Eric Hammond <eric at jehammond.net>
>> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
>> Subject: Re: [GNC] Fixing incorrect Vendor for invoices
>>
>> HI,
>>
>> On Fri, August 26, 2022 3:25 pm, Eric Hammond wrote:
>>> Somehow, I picked the wrong vendor when entering many bills in
>>> GnuCash, and posted them.
>>> I find that Vendor entry in the bill is not changeable, even after
>>> un-posting them.
>>> Is there a way, other than deleting and re-entering them, to correct
>>> this?
>>> Thanks
>>
>> - Unpost Bill
>> - Edit Bill (this pops up the dialog similar to the New Bill dialog)
>> - From there you can select a new Vendor.
>>
>>> Eric
>>
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>>
>> -derek
>>
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>>        Derek Atkins                 617-623-3745
>>        derek at ihtfp.com             www.ihtfp.com
>>        Computer and Internet Security Consultant
>>
>>
>
>
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>       Derek Atkins                 617-623-3745
>       derek at ihtfp.com             www.ihtfp.com
>       Computer and Internet Security Consultant



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