Re: counter number format not used in tax invoice (solved)

2018-01-25 Thread Geert Janssens
Op donderdag 25 januari 2018 02:46:23 CET schreef Derek Atkins: > Geert Janssens writes: > > li works because it represents an integral number. > > ld does not work because it represents a decimal number. Telling gnucash > > to > > This isn't quite right. 'd' is still an integer value. The issu

Re: counter number format not used in tax invoice (solved)

2018-01-24 Thread Derek Atkins
Geert Janssens writes: > li works because it represents an integral number. > ld does not work because it represents a decimal number. Telling gnucash to This isn't quite right. 'd' is still an integer value. The issue is that some platforms use 'li' to represent long integers, and others use

Re: counter number format not used in tax invoice (solved)

2018-01-19 Thread Geert Janssens
Op donderdag 18 januari 2018 19:37:11 CET schreef Paul de Vries: > > (...) > > > > It sounds like the format you're using is either invalid, or you didn't > > assign it correctly. What do your invoices say for the Invoice ID when > > you create them in the dialog? > > in the dialog for creating

Re: counter number format not used in tax invoice (solved)

2018-01-18 Thread Paul de Vries
> (...) > It sounds like the format you're using is either invalid, or you didn't > assign it correctly. What do your invoices say for the Invoice ID when > you create them in the dialog? in the dialog for creating a new invoice the number field is blank which would default to the next sequen

Re: counter number format not used in tax invoice

2018-01-18 Thread Derek Atkins
Hi, On Thu, January 18, 2018 11:10 am, Paul de Vries wrote: > >> On Thu, January 18, 2018 10:17 am, Paul de Vries wrote: >>> gnucash 2.6.18 on mac osx [snip] >>> a workaround would be to use a format like '2018001', numeric, with >>> counter at '2018001', but i want the option for more variations.

Re: counter number format not used in tax invoice

2018-01-18 Thread Paul de Vries
> On Thu, January 18, 2018 10:17 am, Paul de Vries wrote: >> gnucash 2.6.18 on mac osx >> >> i want the current year as part of the invoice number, so in book options >> i specified the invoice number format as 'F2018-%04d'. >> on the tax invoice the the invoice number is shown as '01'. >> >

Re: counter number format not used in tax invoice

2018-01-18 Thread Derek Atkins
Did you create the new invoice AFTER you updated the format? That format is only used when creating new invoices, which is when the InvoiceID is created. The Reports only take what's already in the invoice. -derek On Thu, January 18, 2018 10:17 am, Paul de Vries wrote: > gnucash 2.6.18 on mac o

counter number format not used in tax invoice

2018-01-18 Thread Paul de Vries
gnucash 2.6.18 on mac osx i want the current year as part of the invoice number, so in book options i specified the invoice number format as 'F2018-%04d'. on the tax invoice the the invoice number is shown as '01'. changing the format using %ld %li %lld %lli doesn't change the output so i