[GNC] Duplicating a bill with a linked document duplicates the link as well

[Adrien Monteleone]

Trying to edit one of these document links produced a crash. It is filed 
here for anyone interested: https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798545

Regards,
Adrien

On 5/30/22 8:25 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
> Not sure if this is intended behavior.
> 
> I use the 'Duplicate' bill/invoice feature to repeat something that 
> requires little or no change, save for the relevant dates.
> 
> But I just realized, I've got a chain of duplicated vendor bills off one 
> bill that already had a linked PDF copy of the bill.
> 
> I was later going to link the proper PDF files to each GnuCash bill, but 
> I noticed that they all already have the exact same link as the 
> original, thus all pointing to the same file.
> 
> There might be a use case I'm not thinking of, but this seems a bit odd 
> to me. It also means I can't use a workflow to process all bills that 
> don't have attachments as a way of keeping track of which ones need to 
> be updated. I now need to check the links for each and every one till I 
> find out which happened to be the original.
> 
>