[GNC] Attaching receipts to expenses voucher

[Michael or Penny Novack]

> Yeah, I tried that, but in the Employee -> New expenses voucher -> Edit
> Expense Voucher list, right-clicking on the Description block doesn't
> bring up any context menu (there isn't a memo block on this page).  Of
> course, trying to do this in the target expense account doesn't work as
> the transaction is automatically marked read-only.
>
> Maybe this is a bug?
>
> Chris

Well -- gnucash is just the "general ledger" part of a business system 
(not an entire business system). So I would not consider failure to 
associate documents to transactions WITHIN gnucash to be a bug.

Maybe turn this around? It is the association that you really need, 
whether within or outside of gnucash. One of the problems here is that 
gnucash is "virtual journal" and it with the journal entry (the entire 
transaction) I would expect to associate documentation << not with parts 
of the transaction -- I do understand that you can think of receipts 
belonging to separate parts but "receipts" just a special case of 
documentation.

Let's say in the description field you put a "number" (say "receipt file 
#1234). And you have a file of receipts which to which your assign 
numbers. In other words, you have a reference "here is where the 
receipts related to this general ledger may be found.In reverse, the 
receipt record should include a reference to the transaction (date, etc.)

If this seems odd to you (not having them IN the general ledger) think 
of pen and oink on paper days. You would expect to be pasting receipts 
into the ledger book?

This is an AUDITING matter (given a transaction, can you produce the 
receipts associated with a transaction)


Michael D Novack