Thanks Geert, > On Aug 1, 2018, at 7:29 AM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnuc...@kobaltwit.be> wrote: > > > I presume you went straight to Business->Vendor/Customer->Process Payment ? > > As explained below this does behave differently from selecting Edit payment > on > a payment transaction.
No, I missed that nuance. I was using ‘Edit payment’ which did change the date to current day. I’ll use the Process Payment approach next time and see how it goes. > > In your example the pre-existing payment transaction itself will remain > unaltered. (It could be altered if the total amounts don't add up, but I > believe even in that case date and num values are retained). Reassuring. > > Edit Payment on the other hand will decompose the payment you have selected > and prefill all the fields in the payment window based on what it found. So > yes, it does look slightly different indeed. The clue to see in which > situation you are is in whether the payment is still listed in the documents > view as a pre-payment or not. > In the immediate case, I think it was listed as a pre-payment, but I have noticed some times when it is not. I’ll be more attentive next time to see the behavior difference based on this. Regards, Adrien _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org 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.
