> On Thu, January 18, 2018 10:17 am, Paul de Vries wrote: >> gnucash 2.6.18 on mac osx >> >> i want the current year as part of the invoice number, so in book options >> i specified the invoice number format as 'F2018-%04d'. >> on the tax invoice the the invoice number is shown as '000001'. >> >> changing the format using %ld %li %lld %lli doesn't change the output so i >> suspect the definition is elsewhere. >> >> a workaround would be to use a format like '2018001', numeric, with >> counter at '2018001', but i want the option for more variations. >> >> how can i do this?
> On 18 Jan 2018, at 16:23, Derek Atkins <de...@ihtfp.com> wrote: > > Did you create the new invoice AFTER you updated the format? for all variants above i created a new test file, changed the format, then created the invoice. > That format is only used when creating new invoices, which is when the > InvoiceID is created. The Reports only take what's already in the > invoice. where is this InvoiceID stored? in the XML file, or in memory only? -paul. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
