There’s a bug report on that point specifically. The invoice screen appears to look like you can edit some data when you can’t.
The way to edit then is to click the ‘Edit Invoice’ button, and in that additional dialog, you can change the vendor. This should be documented in the Help or Guide, but if not, that would be another bug that needs to be filed. Regards, Adrien > On Oct 23, 2019 w43d296, at 11:40 AM, Mark Hedges via gnucash-user > <gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 1:13 PM Derek Atkins <de...@ihtfp.com> wrote: >>>> The recommended procedure is to change the bill/invoice number to >>>> something like “use next”. You can additionally create a placeholder >>>> customer and vendor to assign them to if you like. >>>> >>>> Then just try to remember at some point to search for any bills/invoices >>>> numbered “use next” and edit them to reflect a real new bill/invoice. >>> >>> Instead of letting people correct bad data? >> >> This is how you correct bad data -- by re-using the underlying data >> structure. The assumption is that the user will make more invoices, so >> re-using vs creating is not an extreme burden. > > Vendor A has Job X. I created an invoice for Vendor B and assigned > Job X. The invoice was created for Vendor A (from the Job) but I > didn't notice, so I had to unpost it. It's the same job from my > company's perspective, and the same person, but A was him personally > and B was his new LLC. I wasn't able to change the vendor from the > invoice edit screen. The erroneous invoice cannot be re-used. I > created a new Job Y for Vendor B and created a new invoice. > > Mark > _______________________________________________ > 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. _______________________________________________ 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.
