[GNC] Invoice layout changed upon upgrade from 4.13 to 4.14

[Adrien Monteleone]

The mailing list does accept attachments, but not inline images.

Of course, linking to outside file services is fine too.

As to your question, are you saying:

You have saved report configurations that now don't display properly 
because of this change?

I would think saved configurations should not change in such a 
circumstance, so perhaps this is an additional bug.

*note, in 5.0, you can now set a Saved Configuration as the default for 
all invoices.


Regards,
Adrien

On 4/17/23 6:20 PM, John W. O'Brien via gnucash-user wrote:
> Hello GnuCash users,
> 
> I routinely print invoices to PDF. To help ensure quality and 
> consistency in the output, I have tuned both the "default" style sheet 
> and the report layout I use to generate these invoices. On multiple (low 
> single digits) macOS machines (Monterey 12.6.5, mix of Intel and Apple 
> Silicon), I sync the GnuCash data and config via an ownCloud instance.
> 
> A side-effect of installing the upgrade from 4.13 to 4.14 was that the 
> report "Options->Layout->Row 1 Left" setting changed from "Company name, 
> address and tax ID" [0] to "Empty space" [1]. I suspect this change is a 
> consequence of:
> 
>      Bug 798717
>      Reports > Business > Fancy Invoice duplicates company details
> 
> My concern and uncertainty is about whether this bug fix should have 
> affected a configuration derived from canned report specifically to 
> affix the layout, where the derived configuration is no longer clearly 
> tied to the original, canned report. I would not expect that installing 
> a minor update would result in a change this substantial. Am I missing 
> something, should I be reporting this as a regression against 798717, 
> does this seem like a new bug, or something else?
> 
> Thank you,
> John
> 
> PS: I wasn't sure if the mailing list would accept PNG attachments, 
> which is why I posted them separately.
> 
> [0] https://babble.saltant.net/59e0374b8f46b869/before-4.13-redacted.png
> [1] https://babble.saltant.net/59e0374b8f46b869/after-4.14-redacted.png