Re: [GNC] How to update Description info in Payment Field of Customer Report?

2019-07-12 Thread L. D. James
On 7/12/19 1:01 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: Sorry, forgot that detail. I’m not editing in the AR register. (generally, you should not do so) Makes sense... this is the reason the entries were not being consistent.  I was concern about a corruption in the data, so test test until I get it

Re: [GNC] How to update Description info in Payment Field of Customer Report?

2019-07-12 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Sorry, forgot that detail. I’m not editing in the AR register. (generally, you should not do so) I clicked the ‘payment’ link in the Customer Report. This opened my asset register that was used as the transfer account when I processed the payment. In this case, it was an Undeposited Funds

Re: [GNC] How to update Description info in Payment Field of Customer Report?

2019-07-12 Thread L. D. James
Which screen did you go to for performing the edit?  That's most likely the key, editing the "Memo".  I was editing something different.  I was editing from the "Accounts Receivable" screen.  It has a memo field.  If the field is empty it says "Memo".  Making a change there doesn't show up on

Re: [GNC] How to update Description info in Payment Field of Customer Report?

2019-07-12 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I just edited one of my memos for a customer’s payment noting it applied to a certain invoice and then refreshed the Customer Report. It updated the description field for me as expected. Be sure you are entering info in the `memo` and not the `notes` field of the transaction. `memo` is the

Re: [GNC] Adding custom reports

2019-07-12 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
rgdobie, Your method modifies the gnucash package directly.  While it works to do this, your changes will be overwritten every time you upgrade.  There is a method which avoids this (although I admit it has never worked for me). David P.S. when you use nabble, none of the regular list users see