After an evaluation, GNOME has moved from Bugzilla to GitLab. Learn more about GitLab.
No new issues can be reported in GNOME Bugzilla anymore.
To report an issue in a GNOME project, go to GNOME GitLab.
Do not go to GNOME Gitlab for: Bluefish, Doxygen, GnuCash, GStreamer, java-gnome, LDTP, NetworkManager, Tomboy.
Bug 512991 - Invoices: Do not allow posting to placeholder accounts
Invoices: Do not allow posting to placeholder accounts
Status: VERIFIED FIXED
Product: GnuCash
Classification: Other
Component: Business
2.0.x
Other All
: Low trivial
: ---
Assigned To: Derek Atkins
Derek Atkins
Depends on:
Blocks: backport
 
 
Reported: 2008-01-30 03:35 UTC by Wouter van Marle
Modified: 2018-06-29 22:00 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Wouter van Marle 2008-01-30 03:35:30 UTC 
Invoices can be posted to a place-holder account. This should of course not be possible. A place-holder account should not be selectable when posting an invoice in the first place.

Other information:
Comment 1 Derek Atkins 2008-01-30 04:00:13 UTC 
Why the heck do you have a placeholder A/R account!?!  Just make it an Asset and get on with life!  ;)
Comment 2 Wouter van Marle 2008-01-30 04:16:42 UTC 
@Derek: this happened historically. I used to have one A/R account. Then later my business changed a bit and I had to split it up, mostly because of the need to post invoices in various currencies, and to keep other things separate. The parent still has invoices posted to it, and was after the change to version 2 made into a "place holder" account.
And remember, don't question your users, we are more creative in doing things (unintended) with your software than you can ever imagine :) There is a reason for almost anything.
Comment 3 Derek Atkins 2008-01-30 04:21:48 UTC 
I always question my users.  Just because a user wants to do something doesn't mean they should.  For example, if a user wanted to spam 1,000,000 people should I give them the ability to do so?

Just make a new parent account, type Asset.  Make it the placeholder.  Move the existing A/R under it.

There's no need to ever, and I mean EVER, have a placeholder account of type A/R.
Comment 4 Andreas Köhler 2008-05-12 01:43:03 UTC 
Anyway, I added a safety check to dialog-date-close.c in r17154 on trunk.
Awaiting backport to branches/2.2 for inclusion in GnuCash 2.2.6.
Comment 5 Andreas Köhler 2008-07-08 19:16:14 UTC 
Backported to branches/2.2 in r17269 by cstim for GnuCash 2.2.6.
Comment 6 John Ralls 2018-06-29 22:00:24 UTC 
GnuCash bug tracking has moved to a new Bugzilla host. This bug has been copied to https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=512991. Please update any external references or bookmarks.