Aha! ‘Purchase Order’ is easier to grok for this.
Would that be a terribly difficult fix? Would a bug report be welcome or are there messy implications by changing it? At least one I can think of would be users wanting to create a single ‘PO’ document (with line items) independent of bills/invoices. I think I’ve seen that question already on the list. And thank you for the clarifications! Regards, Adrien > On Aug 23, 2018, at 8:23 AM, Derek Atkins <warl...@mit.edu> wrote: > > Adrien Monteleone <adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> writes: > >> Yes, thank you Derek, >> >> I was describing it backwards. >> >> A single invoice can have only one job and a single job can’t be used >> with multiple vendors. (or multiple customers, but I would think that >> to be a very rare case) >> >> So in addition to the first case, there is also the limitation that >> you also can’t buy supplies from multiple vendors on the same job. >> >> Or did I confuse that as well? > > No, you go it right. Think of a job as a "vendor contract", a way to > link multiple vendor bills together for some purpose. I suppose I > should have named it "Purchase Order". > >> The other part I never could understand was not being able to use the >> same ‘job’ for both a customer and a vendor. So even following the >> above limitations, I can’t use a job on a vendor bill to rebill a >> customer AND assign that job on the customer’s invoice? > > See above. A "job" is really a misnomer. The idea was more like a > "Purchase Order" (PO). A PO is a way to link multiple invoices > together, but a PO is only valid to a single customer or single vendor. > >> I’m also not quite understanding your last caveat. So the Job is then >> not an extra layer of info, but replaces the Vendor/Customer? I think >> I’m truly lost now on the feature and its purpose. > > Internally that is correct. Because a Job (PO) has only a single > customer (or vendor), you can use a Job instead -- so the "Owner" of an > invoice can be a Job (which implies a customer). > >> Regards, >> Adrien > >> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > -derek > > -- > Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory > Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) > URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH > warl...@mit.edu PGP key available > _______________________________________________ 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.
