Bug 780112 requested attachment of a link to a document to an invoice rather than the current link attachment (http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/Bug-336843-Attach-files-to-Transactions-td4665357.html) which is to the transaction created by the invoice. However that transaction doesn't exist before the invoice is posted so the link cannot be attached. Once the invoice is posted, the file link cannot be attached as the transaction cannot be edited while the invoice is posted and if it is unposted the associated transaction disappears again. This is not very useful for transactions from invoices (and presumably bills).
My own use case is one in which I would normally want to associate an external (image or pdf) of an invoice ( sent to a customer) or bill (invoice received from a vendor) with the invoice or bill record internally in Gnucash. It makes more sense to me to associate the external file with an invoice or bill or credit note rather than with the transaction, at least for business users. For non business users where bills or invoices are not or may be rarely used, the current attachment to a transaction works fine ( at least under ubuntu16.04/Linux Mint). I would propose also including a link in the invoice/bill/credit note using the same KVP mechanism that John Ralls suggested to Patrick in the above thread and including a process for setting the link in the invoice dialog and displaying it on the View Invoice tab. I am not sure how the field locking works at present however the customer details appear to be editable and changes persist if a posted invoice is closed and then reopened. I am guessing from this that it should be possible to make non accounting fields which are not directly associated with the transaction editable in an invoice/bill/credit note and able to follow the link if it is clicked. I am interested in attempting to code this as a means of getting my feet wet in Gnucash's code. I would appreciate any feedback about whether this is desirable/redundant or whatever before spending too much time on it. Cheers David Cousens -- View this message in context: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/Attachment-of-links-to-documents-to-bills-invoices-credit-notes-in-addition-to-attachment-to-transacs-tp4691326.html Sent from the GnuCash - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
