Thank you for making the suggestion. I thought maybe it was just me and would have expected the behavior that you suggested below. I have done the resetting thing with the invoice and sales order numbers and now that I know how the incrementing is working, we are more careful about just bringing them up.
We are still getting things straight with the system here. New company and harried CFO/Business Manager/Janitor! Ted -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Jonas Smedegaard Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 8:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SL] Automatic incrementing of unposted PO's and Invoices On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Dieter Simader wrote: > Numbers increase as soon as you bring up the invoice or order form. > > If you change your mind and don't want to finish an invoice put a NPN > item without a price on it and post it. Next time you write an invoice, > bring up this blank invoice and edit it. Why not add the invoice number when the invoice is posted instead? This would be less hassle, and it doesn't make sense anyway to allow printing non-posted invoices. This is current bahavior: 1. Create a new blank invoice, complete with invoice number 2. Add items to the invoice 3. Send the invoice through email or printer to customer 4. Post (save, that is) the invoice Imagine completing step 3, take a coffee break and then the phone rings; come back and add a few items (not remembering that you'd already moved beyond that step); send it again, and then your browser crashes... Your customer has two non-identical invoices with identical numbers, and you have no track of it ('cause you didn't save the work!). Better approach, IMHO: 1. Create an invoice draft 2. Add items to the draft 3. Post ("Create" would be a better name) the invoice 4. Invoice shown with text instead of input fields, and these choices: Edit, New blank draft, New draft based on this one, show log * An "invoice draft" looks as currently, but with the invoice number field blank (but shown, if you are allowed to override) * You can still override - as you can with the currently - and manually type an invoice number in the blank field (unless this is disabled in the config) * At step 2-3 you can optionally print, with "DRAFT" added to the title (and as watermark?) * A neat extra would be the option of saving a draft as template, and select from templates when creating a new draft (and even set a default template for each user). * The "Show log" was just a new spiffy feature I thought up just now: Would be nice to be able to see timestamps of edit (if allowed) and send - Jonas -- Jonas Smedegaard (+45 40843136) http://dr.jones.dk/~jonas/ Spiff ApS (= IT-guide dr. Jones ApS) http://dr.jones.dk/ Debian GNU/Linux developer http://people.debian.org/~js/ ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Jabber - The world's fastest growing real-time communications platform! Don't just IM. Build it in! http://www.jabber.com/osdn/xim _______________________________________________________ (un)subscribe: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sql-ledger-users Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________________ (un)subscribe: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sql-ledger-users Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
