On Thu, 30 Nov 2023 at 09:18, Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote:
> Once again - please remember to reply to the list... > OOps. > > It was several replies up the thread, but I was replying to your point > about being able to delete payments for only some currencies. (though > you've now discovered that currency isn't a limitation) > > Here was my posting: > > > Let's get some terminology and workflow straight: > > > > 1. Using the Business Features, Invoices and Bills are entered in a > separate UI, *not* directly in an account register. > > > > 2. Posting these, results in transactions appearing in the respective > A/R or A/P accounts. > > > > 3. Those transactions are immutable at this point and cannot be edited > or deleted from either the AR/AP accounts, or the other side of their > transactions. (Income accounts in the case of Invoices, or Expense accounts > in the case of Bills) At this point, no bank account or other 'payment > account' is involved. > > > > 4. Payments can either be entered via the 'Process Payment' function, or > entered directly into an appropriate account register. (or imported into > said register) If directly entering or importing, you then have to > right-click the transaction and choose 'Assign as payment' to bring up the > 'Process Payment' dialog to formally link the payment transaction to an > Invoice or Bill. These transactions affect and appear in the source account > and either AR/AP accordingly. They are always editable and delete-able from > any affected register. The Invoice/Bill posting status has no bearing on > this. However, while you can edit them directly, you generally should do so > by right-clicking and choosing 'Edit payment'. > > Does that clear up the issue concerning deleting payments? > > Note, I think there is a bug concerning invoices showing still as paid > after a payment is deleted, but that might only be in the Invoice UI. > I'm not sure that is the case everywhere. I'd have to investigate. I > also don't know if that bug has been filed. > > Regardless, if after deleting a payment, you unpost and repost the > invoice, it should now show as unpaid since GnuCash can't find the > original payment to re-link it. > > There is nothing odd about being able to delete a payment. > > Regards, > Adrien > I think I must be going mad.😪 I thought in the past I had always observed an error message if trying to delete a transaction in the bank account that was attached to a posted invoice, using the business features and AR or AP. . But I just checked a previous installation on another computer (slightly earlier release on Linux) and found it is possible to simply delete an entry from the bank account, despite it being attached to a posted invoice. Did I just dream there was an error message generated if one tried to delete a transaction in the bank account, for which there was a posted invoice? Dave _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: 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.
