Seems to me a bad design decision to allow a user to have UI access to change things one way, but not the other. It is also bad user design to allow users to change things in an account that will always break when the user changes anything, something that's been true for as long as I've used gnucash.
It would be better to make the account a placeholder account by default, and rewrite the business logic to push the changes into the account despite the placeholder setting, but I imagine that's a lot of work, and the people who know how to do the work will explain why my ideas are no good. David -------- Original Message -------- From: Adrien Monteleone <[email protected]> Sent: Mon Nov 22 20:44:46 EST 2021 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [GNC] Accounts Payable payment entry is marked as an Invoice I'm aware of the label meanings, but I didn't realize clicking them would change anything. Sounds like a bug. I don't recall ever clicking on the "I/P" at any time however, but I think I get the picture now. (I never edit from AP/AR, always some other account or through the Edit Payment window) So I can reasonably edit this directly? (not officially supported, I understand) I'm using the SQLite backend. I'm guessing the db scheme in the wiki can point me to the I/P flag? Or is there some additional 'immutable' flag I need to change instead/also? Perhaps I should file a bug on the report code taking the user to the AR/AP account directly since that might be troublesome, as well as on the immutability issue being triggered without warning? Regards, Adrien On 11/22/21 7:28 PM, Derek Atkins wrote: > Adrien, > The "I" means "Invoice" (which internally can mean Customer Invoice, > Vendor Bill, etc). It is in both AR and AP accounts, and it is labled "I" > in there in either case. > NORMALLY when you make a payment it gets a P. > If you post and Invoice (or Bill/Credit Note/etc) it gets an I. > > When it has an I, the transaction is immutable from the register -- > because you are supposed to edit it by unposting the Invoice/Bill/etc and > then re-posting it. > > HOWEVER, the I/P/? column can be "clicked on" by a user, which will > transition it to the "next" type, and, if you do this *manually* and it > transitions to an I --- it becomes immutable... and there is no way in the > UI to undo that. > > So Chris was basically saying "don't do that". > > MOST likely this is the cause of your issue. The only fix is to go into > the data file and remove the flag from the transaction under the covers. > There is no UI way to fix it, because you're not supposed to go into AR/AP > accounts. > > -derek > > On Mon, November 22, 2021 8:05 pm, Adrien Monteleone wrote: >> I'll add that I'm not totally dense, and it seems like you're offering a >> fix, but either some important details are missing, or, we are >> misunderstanding one another. >> >> Regards, >> Adrien >> >> On 11/22/21 6:04 PM, Christopher Lam wrote: >>> You must have opened the AR register, and clicked on the Transaction >>> type >>> "I" payment split. This stupidly changes it to "P". >>> The official fix is to not click on the AP/AR register. >>> >>> On Tue, 23 Nov 2021, 5:45 am Adrien Monteleone, < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> I was entering annual property tax bills, and noticed for one from last >>>> year, that it has a notation on the Vendor Report of: >>>> >>>> "Please note some transactions were not processed >>>> 1. Transaction has type invoice but no owner or lot" >>>> >>>> Viewing the AP register shows the payment entry, but marked with an "I" >>>> instead of a "P". >>>> >>>> Jumping to the Invoice shows it as PAID, and viewing lots shows both >>>> invoice and payment with a zero balance. (no balance really) >>>> >>>> Any ideas on what caused this and how to fix it? >>>> >>>> (using 4.7 on BigSur) >>>> -- >>>> Regards, >>>> Adrien _______________________________________________ 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.
