Hi, I agree unconditionally on the notes field.
And I can see how being able to pull up job or customer/vendor details directly from the invoice window could be a big time saver. So I have merged your PR to revert the read-only status of these three fields as I find the old behavior's use case is stronger than the current behavior's one. Having said that, I believe we can do much better still in the user interface area. I had made a few suggestions in bug 797168, but currently have other priorities. So for now this will have to do. Best regards, Geert Op maandag 14 oktober 2019 15:08:55 CEST schreef Amish: > Hello, > > There was this fix implemented in Gnucash which inadvertently created > issue for me. > > This was the bug report which was marked RESOLVED FIXED. > https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797168 > > But this fix created issue with respect to my GST filing and tracking. > So I counter opened a bug report last month to fix this, by partially > reverting it. > https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797400 > > I also created pull request on Github for the same: > https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/pull/580 > > Its been one month but since bug report or PR are not reviewed and my > GST tracking is affected completely. Hence I am posting the same here in > mailing list. > > Here is copy-paste of the description from the bug report that I had filed. > > Before Gnucash 3.6, I used to track customer/vendor conversations/issues > OR GST related and other important points via Notes field of invoice / bill. > > Now since Gnucash 3.6 these fields are no more editable, unless I unpost > the bill. > > This does not make sense. Why cant I add notes after bill was posted? It > does not cause any harm in invoice values. So locking the field is > unnecessary. > > It was so helpful for GST (India) tracking too. > > Once I report the invoice to Government portal, I would simply add > #GSTFILED in Notes. Similarly when my vendors upload their invoices > (where I am buyer), I would mark those bills as #GSTMATCHED too. > > Anytime in future if I wanted to check if there is any invoice / bill > that is not reported by me (or by my vendor) - I would simply "Find bill > / invoice" where notes did not contain #GSTFILED or #GSTMATCHED > > This made tracking of my GST returns and GST government filing very easy. > > But now that Notes field is un-editable... every time I have to unpost > the invoice / bill and add note and then post the invoice / bill again. > (messing up customer payment too). This is not really needed. > > Similarly under "Billing information" - Edit button under Customer / > Vendor was clickable. This "Edit" also does not affect actual Invoice OR > bill values. But it helped me find GST number, Phone numbers, Email > address (and other details) of Customer / Vendor easily and instantly. > > Otherwise just to find customer detail - I have to go all the way to > Customers Overview - Search customer, right click and then Edit. > (unnecessary three or more clicks and scrolling of screen) > > Since Notes field and Edit customer under posted Invoice / bill - does > not change anything related to Invoice or bill values.. they should be > made Editable. So that adding notes (after posting) becomes easy and > obtaining customer information is also fast. > > Please re-consider the change and make them editable again. Otherwise it > handicaps few nice features. > > Please review PR, the link is given above. > > Thank you, > > Amish. > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
