On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 06:53:07PM -0400, Derek Atkins was heard to remark: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Linas Vepstas) writes: > > > Another question: > > > > I'm making copies (yes, I remember out previous conversation) of > > customers for book closing. This requires copies of bill terms. > > Should I just copy *all* bill terms (using the object for-each routine) > > or should I copy only those that I can find by looking at what's > > in a customer? I'm already doing both for completeness.. wondering > > if I should ditch 'foreach' or not. > > I still believe that you should NOT be copying customers (or vendors, > or employees) across book closings, or if you do it should be an exact > copy, not a 'gemini' copy.
Its an exact copy, only the guid's are different. The guid's are different because every object must have a unique guid; it doesn't make sense to me to have two distinct objects with the same guid. > Similarly with the billterms and taxtables > you dont need to copy them because the parent/child code is already > doing the historical "copy and save" for you. Does this mean that I should prune away the children on closing books? --linas -- pub 1024D/01045933 2001-02-01 Linas Vepstas (Labas!) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP Key fingerprint = 8305 2521 6000 0B5E 8984 3F54 64A9 9A82 0104 5933 _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
