Re: Pasting text into SQL-Ledger's invoice description field

[Brian J. <bjo...@je...>]

Would you mind giving me a brief description of how you track time and create the 
invoices for sql-ledger?

We are an engineering company in Ontario, Canada and would like to use sql-ledger 
but need a practical method of recording and transfering time sheet info


Brian Johnson
Johnson Engineering Consultants
www.jecinc.on.ca

Michael Bush (Mi...@di...) wrote: 
>
>Hey Everyone:
>My company uses SQL-Ledger for billing consulting time and we like to
>include details of what work was performed.  We have implemented a request
>tracking system called Request Tracker (great program!
>http://www.fsck.com/projects/rt/features.html  The new version supports
>PostgreSQL).  Any way... we have noticed that if you paste anything into the
> Description field, such as a paragraph and the paragraph has a carriage
>return in them, only the first line of the paragraph is pasted.  If you
>removed the carriage returns, it will paste fine.  Kind of a pain when you
>have 6-8 pages of transactions to invoice out and each transaction has a
>paragraph of text.
>Any recommendation on how to overcome this issue short writing a Perl
>script to remove carriage returns.  Dieter might want to consider an
>interface with Request Tracker for importing data ;-).
>Regards,
>Mike Bush
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