Re: [GNC] Bulk invoice printing
You'd still have to generate the PDFs individually, which is just 'printing to a file' and so not really saving any clicks. *Then* you need to send them to the printer with more clicks as you describe. I could be mistaken, but I understood the issue was having to go through the steps: 1. Generate an Invoice (lots of clicks and typing, even with the duplicate function) 2. Print it (select printer, adjust settings, etc.) 3. Repeat for each member While in this case it is only an annual workflow, having more than a dozen or so of these to do all at once is tedious, and having 50+ is crazy repetitive and a strain on fingers. (and increases the probability of doing something wrong due to the monotony) If steps #1 and #2 aren't done at the same time. Then you could add: 1a. Do a Find for the invoice(s) or open invoices from AR via the 'jump to invoice' on the right click menu 1b. Display the Invoice Report Optionally the steps can be reversed which runs an Invoice Report, and then you have to choose which customer and invoice. (even more clicks) No matter the workflow chosen, lots and lots of clicks are involved with the present state of GnuCash. The Business Features were designed for a small consultancy that occasionally generates a few invoices. That doesn't mean you can't use it otherwise, but it wasn't optimized for other use cases. Regards, Adrien p.s.—you pressed the right button. On 10/16/23 11:22 PM, John Walker wrote: I am unsure if I have pressed the right buttons in replying to Adrien and Arek and everyone else on the list. Please let me know. If printing is your only issue, I suggest that you make pdfs of your invoices through Gnucash and store them all in the same folder. When you go to print, use file explorer, go to the pdf folder where your invoices are stored and select which pdf files you want to print. Then, right click on one of the selected files and left click on *print*. All selected files should print individually for you on your default printer. ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] Bulk invoice printing
I am unsure if I have pressed the right buttons in replying to Adrien and Arek and everyone else on the list. Please let me know. If printing is your only issue, I suggest that you make pdfs of your invoices through Gnucash and store them all in the same folder. When you go to print, use file explorer, go to the pdf folder where your invoices are stored and select which pdf files you want to print. Then, right click on one of the selected files and left click on *print*. All selected files should print individually for you on your default printer. Cheers John On 17/10/2023 12:30 pm, Adrien Monteleone wrote: No, that won't work. This is a long standing bug/enhancement request. Your best bet is to use an outside invoice generating system, and then import the resulting transactions into GnuCash. You can then still manage individual payments and member statements of account in GnuCash. (Customer Reports) While there are specialized invoicing apps and services, you could likely accomplish this with an office suit using a spreadsheet for the math and data, and a word processor to do a data & mail merge for the actual printable invoice. You then import a CSV from the spreadsheet into GnuCash with the invoice data. See the Help & Guide for the CSV import template. Regards, Adrien On 10/16/23 8:51 PM, Arek Skibicki wrote: We are a small community organization and are just starting to use GnuCash. We create invoices for our annual dues to each member. It would make life much easier if we could print those invoices in bulk rather than going from one member to the next. If there is such a feature, I haven't been able to find it. I'm not a programmer, but I suspect the easiest way to accomplish this would be to start from the invoice register (revenue account) and printing all entries within a specified date range using one of the invoice templates. Is this possible? ___ 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. ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] Bulk invoice printing
Note, using an outside app like an office suite also has the benefit of *generating* lots of invoices very quickly via import, and avoiding the tedious steps to create them one-by-one in GnuCash. Regards, Adrien On 10/16/23 9:30 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: No, that won't work. This is a long standing bug/enhancement request. Your best bet is to use an outside invoice generating system, and then import the resulting transactions into GnuCash. You can then still manage individual payments and member statements of account in GnuCash. (Customer Reports) While there are specialized invoicing apps and services, you could likely accomplish this with an office suit using a spreadsheet for the math and data, and a word processor to do a data & mail merge for the actual printable invoice. You then import a CSV from the spreadsheet into GnuCash with the invoice data. See the Help & Guide for the CSV import template. ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] Bulk invoice printing
No, that won't work. This is a long standing bug/enhancement request. Your best bet is to use an outside invoice generating system, and then import the resulting transactions into GnuCash. You can then still manage individual payments and member statements of account in GnuCash. (Customer Reports) While there are specialized invoicing apps and services, you could likely accomplish this with an office suit using a spreadsheet for the math and data, and a word processor to do a data & mail merge for the actual printable invoice. You then import a CSV from the spreadsheet into GnuCash with the invoice data. See the Help & Guide for the CSV import template. Regards, Adrien On 10/16/23 8:51 PM, Arek Skibicki wrote: We are a small community organization and are just starting to use GnuCash. We create invoices for our annual dues to each member. It would make life much easier if we could print those invoices in bulk rather than going from one member to the next. If there is such a feature, I haven't been able to find it. I'm not a programmer, but I suspect the easiest way to accomplish this would be to start from the invoice register (revenue account) and printing all entries within a specified date range using one of the invoice templates. Is this possible? ___ 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.
[GNC] Bulk invoice printing
We are a small community organization and are just starting to use GnuCash. We create invoices for our annual dues to each member. It would make life much easier if we could print those invoices in bulk rather than going from one member to the next. If there is such a feature, I haven't been able to find it. I'm not a programmer, but I suspect the easiest way to accomplish this would be to start from the invoice register (revenue account) and printing all entries within a specified date range using one of the invoice templates. Is this possible? -- *Arek Skibicki* *Treasurer* *Sand Castle Community Association* 416-505-8991 705-533-3079 ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] Residual Processes After Closing GnuCash
These are already built binaries so you don't have to build: https://code.gnucash.org/builds/win32/stable/ On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 2:48 PM R Losey wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 12:11 PM Glenn Fowler > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> These are builds that have commits that have improvements and bug fixes >> that will be in the next release so my opinion is that they are better. >> >> However, the fix was done on Oct 2nd so if you want to grab the build from >> Oct 3rd there are only a couple of language translations and one fix for >> the stock assistant after the official 5.4 release: >> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/commits/stable >> > > This sounds like a good idea to me, but is there a bit more information? I > am not interested in building GnuCash, but I wouldn't mind downloading and > installing 5.4 with the fixes mentioned. > > I've generally used 'git' for source code control, so I'm not sure where > to find the "stable build" from these sources. > > Thanks, > _ > Richard Losey > rlo...@gmail.com > Micah 6:8 > ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] Residual Processes After Closing GnuCash
On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 12:11 PM Glenn Fowler wrote: > Hi, > > These are builds that have commits that have improvements and bug fixes > that will be in the next release so my opinion is that they are better. > > However, the fix was done on Oct 2nd so if you want to grab the build from > Oct 3rd there are only a couple of language translations and one fix for > the stock assistant after the official 5.4 release: > https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/commits/stable > This sounds like a good idea to me, but is there a bit more information? I am not interested in building GnuCash, but I wouldn't mind downloading and installing 5.4 with the fixes mentioned. I've generally used 'git' for source code control, so I'm not sure where to find the "stable build" from these sources. Thanks, _ Richard Losey rlo...@gmail.com Micah 6:8 ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] Residual Processes After Closing GnuCash
Thanks, I'll check them out. On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 12:10 PM Glenn Fowler wrote: > Hi, > > These are builds that have commits that have improvements and bug fixes > that will be in the next release so my opinion is that they are better. > > However, the fix was done on Oct 2nd so if you want to grab the build from > Oct 3rd there are only a couple of language translations and one fix for > the stock assistant after the official 5.4 release: > https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/commits/stable > > ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] Residual Processes After Closing GnuCash
Hi, These are builds that have commits that have improvements and bug fixes that will be in the next release so my opinion is that they are better. However, the fix was done on Oct 2nd so if you want to grab the build from Oct 3rd there are only a couple of language translations and one fix for the stock assistant after the official 5.4 release: https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/commits/stable ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] Residual Processes After Closing GnuCash
Hello Glenn, thank you for the suggestion. I'm tempted to move to it, however, as a daily build I'm wondering if it's safe enough to leverage with something as important as my financial data. I understand it's in the stable daily build folder, but I get worried. Any thoughts? Michael On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 9:57 AM Glenn Fowler wrote: > What I did is you can stay on v5.4 with that fix/patch by grabbing the > latest build from here if you don't want to downgrade: > https://code.gnucash.org/builds/win32/stable/ > > > On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 9:52 AM Maf. King wrote: > > > On Monday, 16 October 2023 14:31:10 BST Paul Kroitor wrote: > > > > > > This started in 5.1 and I was told that it was a known issue from 5.1 > > > through 5.3, fixed in 5.4, but I am definitely running 5.4 (from a file > > > called gnucash-5.4-1.setup from a file downloaded Oct 15th), and the > > issue > > > persists. Rebooting or killing the processes solves the immediate issue > > but > > > the behaviour remains. > > > > > > > > > > Hi Paul. > > > > My recollection is that this "ghost process" issue only came to light in > > 5.4 > > for Windows. > > > > looking at bug https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=799092 my read > is > > that > > it is fixed for 5.5 > > > > hth, > > Maf. > > > > > > > > ___ > > 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. > > > ___ > 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. > ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] Residual Processes After Closing GnuCash
What I did is you can stay on v5.4 with that fix/patch by grabbing the latest build from here if you don't want to downgrade: https://code.gnucash.org/builds/win32/stable/ On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 9:52 AM Maf. King wrote: > On Monday, 16 October 2023 14:31:10 BST Paul Kroitor wrote: > > > > This started in 5.1 and I was told that it was a known issue from 5.1 > > through 5.3, fixed in 5.4, but I am definitely running 5.4 (from a file > > called gnucash-5.4-1.setup from a file downloaded Oct 15th), and the > issue > > persists. Rebooting or killing the processes solves the immediate issue > but > > the behaviour remains. > > > > > > Hi Paul. > > My recollection is that this "ghost process" issue only came to light in > 5.4 > for Windows. > > looking at bug https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=799092 my read is > that > it is fixed for 5.5 > > hth, > Maf. > > > > ___ > 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. > ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] Residual Processes After Closing GnuCash
Yes, you're right. Sorry for the confusion. I'll live with it until 5.5 comes out. Paul PS (afterthought): I can't see how, if the bug is only in 5.4, both the bug reporter and I had the 5.4 installer fail due to zombie processes (as 5.4 wasn't yet on our systems). Consider that it might instead be a side effect of some Microsoft change to OneDrive, as there were major Windows Update changes to this box a few days ago, just before I noticed the issue (in 5.1). The bug report history implies this is related to OneDrive, which is used a lot on this system but my GnuCash files are explicitly NOT in a OneDrive-backed folder. I continue to be suspicious of Microsoft trying to absolutely everything in the cloud (the new Outlook warns you that switching to it will cause all messages to be stored in the cloud, even for private email servers). -Original Message- From: gnucash-user On Behalf Of Maf. King Sent: Monday, October 16, 2023 9:53 AM To: 'GnuCash User List' Subject: Re: [GNC] Residual Processes After Closing GnuCash On Monday, 16 October 2023 14:31:10 BST Paul Kroitor wrote: > > This started in 5.1 and I was told that it was a known issue from 5.1 > through 5.3, fixed in 5.4, but I am definitely running 5.4 (from a > file called gnucash-5.4-1.setup from a file downloaded Oct 15th), and > the issue persists. Rebooting or killing the processes solves the > immediate issue but the behaviour remains. > > Hi Paul. My recollection is that this "ghost process" issue only came to light in 5.4 for Windows. looking at bug https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=799092 my read is that it is fixed for 5.5 hth, Maf. ___ 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. ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] Residual Processes After Closing GnuCash
On Monday, 16 October 2023 14:31:10 BST Paul Kroitor wrote: > > This started in 5.1 and I was told that it was a known issue from 5.1 > through 5.3, fixed in 5.4, but I am definitely running 5.4 (from a file > called gnucash-5.4-1.setup from a file downloaded Oct 15th), and the issue > persists. Rebooting or killing the processes solves the immediate issue but > the behaviour remains. > > Hi Paul. My recollection is that this "ghost process" issue only came to light in 5.4 for Windows. looking at bug https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=799092 my read is that it is fixed for 5.5 hth, Maf. ___ 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.
[GNC] Residual Processes After Closing GnuCash
I initially reported this in the development list but am told it should be here instead (sorry!). On Win 11 every time I open then close GnuCash, another process called "GnuCash Program File (32-bit)" remains in the task manager's process list (i.e. five executions results in five zombie processes). This started in 5.1 and I was told that it was a known issue from 5.1 through 5.3, fixed in 5.4, but I am definitely running 5.4 (from a file called gnucash-5.4-1.setup from a file downloaded Oct 15th), and the issue persists. Rebooting or killing the processes solves the immediate issue but the behaviour remains. Thanks as always, Paul ___ 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.
