Tim, The Accounts Payable account Type is explicitly tied into the Invoice Bills payments and Credit Notes etc of the business features. The I appears against transaction records in the register to indicate that these are generated by an Invoice and the P indicates a payment which can be linked to a specific invoice. Some fields in the transactionscan only be edited from the Business-> Find Invoice which brings up an editor when the Invoice is opened as this would affect the integrity of the business features.
If you don't want to use the Business Features, you can just setup an Asset account of Type Asset rather than of Type Accounts Payable in the New Account Dialog and still give it the name Accounts Payable and just manually add the requisite transactions for the events you wish to record. None of the Business reports for Bills and Invoices will work with this. I don't know of any way to edit/delete customers/vendors other than editing the XML <filename>.gnucash file. First you need to ensure it is in uncompressed format. Edit->Preferences->General tab and look for the Files section on that tab and unselect the Compress Files check box and then save the file. Open the file with a text editor. The records for the Customer and Vendor look like <gnc:GncCustomer version="2.0.0"> <cust:guid type="guid">6960dc95031246b1ac97ef94008f9d72</cust:guid> <cust:name>Alpha</cust:name> <cust:id>000001</cust:id> <cust:addr version="2.0.0"> <addr:name>Tom Tom</addr:name> <addr:addr1>16 Nowhere Pde</addr:addr1> </cust:addr> <cust:shipaddr version="2.0.0"> <addr:name>TomTom</addr:name> <addr:addr1>15 Anywhere St</addr:addr1> <addr:addr2>Nowhere</addr:addr2> </cust:shipaddr> <cust:taxincluded>USEGLOBAL</cust:taxincluded> <cust:active>1</cust:active> <cust:discount>0/1</cust:discount> <cust:credit>0/1</cust:credit> <cust:currency> <cmdty:space>CURRENCY</cmdty:space> <cmdty:id>AUD</cmdty:id> </cust:currency> <cust:use-tt>0</cust:use-tt> </gnc:GncCustomer> with GncVendor for vendor records. Delete everything between the opening <gnc:GncCustomer version="2.0.0"> and closing </gnc:GncCustomer> tags and similarly for the vendor records. It may pay to remove any Invoices/Bills etc you have created first as they may be more difficult to find after the customer and vendor records are deleted. the search is for a Regex expression so searching for "." will find all customers and all vendors or Invoices or Bills. GnucCash can have more than one instance running (at least on Linux not sure about Windows/Mac) so if I am exploring new features I create a test file named as such rather than test out stuff on my actual accounting records. David Cousens. ----- David Cousens -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html _______________________________________________ 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.