Recurring Invoice Variables glitchette

[BanksyBoy]

Noticed this recently:

The markup to use Invoice Variables in recurring invoices is not resolving in the general text description despite being all ok on invoices.

[Glenn]

The problem here is the invoice name is derived from the first line description and is only 35 characters long. If you use a dynamic variable here it’s possible that it can end up getting truncated.

One thing you can do is switch on “Name invoices on creation”, within advanced features. This allows you to name the recurring invoice and that name will always get translated to any child invoice.

I have also logged a request to see if the actual first line text can be parsed for dynamic tokens before the first 35 characters are extracted to create the invoice name.

[BanksyBoy]

Thanks Glenn

Will certainly try that, was just puzzled why it no longer worked as per the previous examples in my image…

All the best

PB

[Glenn]

I believe it’s related to this.

http://community.quickfile.co.uk/t/recurring-invoices-invoice-name-field-not-being-used-on-child-invoices/7936

Before it was ignoring the invoice name (which when invoice naming is not enabled is the initial 35 characters of the top line description).

[BanksyBoy]

Thanks Glenn

Appears it has been resolved and may have been temporary?

Best, PB

[Glenn]

There were a couple of different scenarios here that caused some unexpected behaviour. I see a few updates have been made to handle tokens within the invoice name. I will mark this as solved for now, but let me know if you encounter any similar issues.