On editing invoices: There are two ways this will be addressed in the future. Until then, reposting invoices is supported on a best-effort and secondary basis only, and we strongly discourage reposting invoices. We support it only as an interrim measure for people who have a valid business reason to do so. In general, when people ask about this feature, the first thing to do is ask why you need it and if there is a GAAP-compliant way of doing it. Workflow is a separate issue from accounting logic. Just because you can't repost an invoice properly without running into questions which dont have accepted answers (for example, regarding COGS calculations), doesn't mean we can't provide an equivalent workflow which does do things in a GAAP-compliant way. We just don't have that capability yet.
Once an invoice, or any financial transaction, is posted to the books, essential information regarding that invoice really should be read-only. If there is an error, we need a "Reverse and post as new" button which allows one to automatically reverse the invoice and then post a new one in a single click. Unfortunately I am not quite sure how we want to handle invoice numbers in this case. (Maybe [invnumber]-V for the reversal and [invnumber]-N for the new one? Unfortunately there may also be local rules about this sort of thing.) The second area we are working on is actually very different. This is extending the batch/voucher/draft system in 1.3 to handle invoices. In this area, an invoice would be editable only until it is reviewed and approved. There is a fundamentally separate issue in some of these requests too which will be handled in a different way: The ability to add (not modify!) internal notes to an invoice. This will be handled by: 1) Moving the notes into a separate table, so you can have many notes to an invoice 2) Adding a separate interface to handle these notes. I am not sure whether the notes rewrite for invoices will occur by 1.3. However, I expect to have the draft/voucher system handling invoices properly by the end of next weekend. Hope this helps, Chris Travers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Ledger-smb-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ledger-smb-devel
