GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 759362
Voided transaction printing on checks
Last modified: 2018-06-29 23:44:54 UTC
Scenario: If I make a register entry and print a check to say "XYZ Corp," everything is fine. Now for some reason I go back and void that transaction, if I were to print a new check to "XYZ Corp" then "voided transaction" is then printed on the check. I cannot seem to not have "voided transaction" printed on the check, no matter if any of the new entries are NOT voided out. It seems that if I make the new checks out to the original payee that was voided, the voided transaction sticks to that payee. If I were to modify the name to say "X Y Z Corp," then it prints normally.
It took me a while to understand what problem you were experiencing, but finally managed to reproduce it. This has actually nothing to do with check printing directly, however it rather is an unfortunate side effect from our quick-fill feature. When you voided the transaction, the void action sets a note "Voided Transactions" on the transaction. By default these transaction notes are not displayed in the account register. You can reveal them though by selecting View->Double Line. When you create your next transaction, for "XYZ Corp", quick-fill kicks in and copies the previous transaction for "XYZ Corp", which happens to be the voided transaction. Quick-fill will copy all information from the original transaction, except for the date and num field. This means the transaction note is copied as well and hence your new transaction will also have a note field with "Voided Transaction". The easy solution in your case is to enable "Double Line" view and remove the notes from all transactions following the voided one. The core problem is already discussed in bug 761201. Hence I will mark this one as a duplicate. Thank your for taking the time to report this. Feel free to report any other bugs you find in gnucash. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 761201 ***
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