Re: [GNC] Deleting customer
Hi, On Mon, July 11, 2022 12:57 pm, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > On Sat, Jun 25, 2022 at 09:29:49AM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: >> You can't. >> Just change it and reuse it for another customer. > > Incidentally, in the past I found myself manually editing the .xml and > carefully deleted the gnc:GncCustomer object (and looked up the whole > file for the relevant cust:guid code to check if there were references). > > Nothing bad came from it after several months, so I suspect I did it > properly and didn't break anything in it… > > > But this left me wondering: is this (and the same for vendors and > invoices/bills) just a lacking feature that nobody implemented, or a > design decision? > It doesn't strike me as something incredibly hard to implement (just > check if there is any reference (which IIRC can only be in > bills/invoices objects) before deleting), but perhaps I'm missing > something big in this topic. It was a design decision. There are lots of places where there could be hidden references, and some of the references could be in the *other* direction, too. There are possibly other references than just invoices. There can be indirect references. And there can be references into the CoA as well, through the Lots function -- a prepayment will reference a customer, even if you don't have any invoices. Finding whether or not a customer is referenced was just deemed to be too much work for something that just doesn't happen much. So it was decided that it was sufficient to either re-use the Customer object for a new customer, or mark it Inactive so it didn't show up in searches. Thanks, > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. -derek -- Derek Atkins 617-623-3745 de...@ihtfp.com www.ihtfp.com Computer and Internet Security Consultant ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] Deleting customer
On Sat, Jun 25, 2022 at 09:29:49AM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: > You can't. > Just change it and reuse it for another customer. Incidentally, in the past I found myself manually editing the .xml and carefully deleted the gnc:GncCustomer object (and looked up the whole file for the relevant cust:guid code to check if there were references). Nothing bad came from it after several months, so I suspect I did it properly and didn't break anything in it… But this left me wondering: is this (and the same for vendors and invoices/bills) just a lacking feature that nobody implemented, or a design decision? It doesn't strike me as something incredibly hard to implement (just check if there is any reference (which IIRC can only be in bills/invoices objects) before deleting), but perhaps I'm missing something big in this topic. -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. More about me: https://mapreri.org : :' : Launchpad user: https://launchpad.net/~mapreri `. `'` Debian QA page: https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=mattia `- signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] Deleting customer
On 6/25/2022 11:16 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Sat, 25 Jun 2022, Derek Atkins wrote: You can't. Just change it and reuse it for another customer. derek, Hint -- if you are only infrequently adding customers, so won;t be reused right away, you can (temporarily) make the name something you would not confuse with a real customer name. For example, Nemo (Latin for "nobody") Michael ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] Deleting customer
On Sat, 25 Jun 2022, Derek Atkins wrote: You can't. Just change it and reuse it for another customer. derek, Okay. Thanks. Rich ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] Deleting customer
You can't. Just change it and reuse it for another customer. -derek Sent using my mobile device. Please excuse any typos. On June 25, 2022 9:02:42 AM Rich Shepard wrote: I'm using gnucash-3.11-x86_64-1_SBo on Slackware64-14.2 and unintentionally entered an existing customer twice. I don't find how to delete that record in the gnucash-guide. How do I delete the new record? Rich ___ 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.
[GNC] Deleting customer
I'm using gnucash-3.11-x86_64-1_SBo on Slackware64-14.2 and unintentionally entered an existing customer twice. I don't find how to delete that record in the gnucash-guide. How do I delete the new record? Rich ___ 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.
