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[SL] print changeing time spans on invoices using recurrent transactions

[Marcus S. <li...@lo...>]

Hi,

I'm planning to use recurrent transactions for monthly hosting or yearly
domain invoices. How do I print changeing time spans (e.g. "from
01.01.2009 to 01.31.2009" or just "January 2009" for invoices created in
January) on those monthly invoices.

Thanks,
Marcus

Re: [SL] print changeing time spans on invoices using recurrent transactions

[Michael H. <mh...@it...>]

Been there, done that, easiest if you don't, and then in the notes just have some simple phrase referring to "the previous month".
   That said, you can get fancy with variables and custom templates and whatnot.
   Highly recommend purchasing a support package and getting the manual for that though, bit much to suss out from scratch.


Thanks,

Michael


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From: "Marcus Sobchak" <li...@lo...>
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Subject: [SL] print changeing time spans on invoices using recurrent transactions

Hi,

I'm planning to use recurrent transactions for monthly hosting or yearly
domain invoices. How do I print changeing time spans (e.g. "from
01.01.2009 to 01.31.2009" or just "January 2009" for invoices created in
January) on those monthly invoices.

Thanks,
Marcus



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Re: [SL] print changeing time spans on invoices using recurrent transactions

[Marcus S. <li...@lo...>]

Hi Michael,

Am Freitag, den 09.01.2009, 09:00 -0800 schrieb Michael Hasse:
> Been there, done that, easiest if you don't, and then in the notes just have some simple phrase referring to "the previous month".
>    That said, you can get fancy with variables and custom templates and whatnot.
>    Highly recommend purchasing a support package and getting the manual for that though, bit much to suss out from scratch.

Thanks for your answer. But your "simple phrase" is not what I'm for.
I'd like to set a variable eg. %currentyear% in the description of an
article. This variable sould be replaced to 2009 when printing the
invoice. Any idea in which script I've to do the "regsub"?

Ciao,
Marcus

Re: [SL] print changeing time spans on invoices using recurrent transactions

[Rolf S. <in...@to...>]

> I'd like to set a variable eg. %currentyear% in the description of an
> article. This variable sould be replaced to 2009 when printing the
> invoice. Any idea in which script I've to do the "regsub"?

I'd suggest that you don't edit any scripts because you loose the 
changes with the next update. If you print the invoices in the month you 
need them, you can edit the LaTeX template for example in the following way:

...
\usepackage[german]{babel}
\usepackage{datetime}

\newdateformat{invoicedate}{%
\monthname[\THEMONTH] \THEYEAR}


...

\invoicedate\today

The last command will print "Januar 2009" if your language is German.

Rolf

Re: [SL] print changeing time spans on invoices using recurrent transactions

[Marcus S. <li...@lo...>]

Hi Rolf,

Am Freitag, den 09.01.2009, 22:27 +0100 schrieb Rolf Stöckli:
> > I'd like to set a variable eg. %currentyear% in the description of an
> > article. This variable sould be replaced to 2009 when printing the
> > invoice. Any idea in which script I've to do the "regsub"?
> 
> I'd suggest that you don't edit any scripts because you loose the 
> changes with the next update. If you print the invoices in the month you 
> need them, you can edit the LaTeX template for example in the following way:
> 
> ...
> \usepackage[german]{babel}
> \usepackage{datetime}
> 
> \newdateformat{invoicedate}{%
> \monthname[\THEMONTH] \THEYEAR}
> 
> 
> ...
> 
> \invoicedate\today
> 
> The last command will print "Januar 2009" if your language is German.

Thanks a lot for your answer. This is exactly what I was looking for. A
howto that helped me with is datetime packge is found here:

http://theoval.sys.uea.ac.uk/~nlct/latex/packages/datetime/datetime-manual.html

Ciao,
Marcus