prepopulation of invoice fields not working

[trev]

Hi,
I’d like to automate the generation of invoices from my billing system. I can’t get the invoice tax drop down to populate from the URL query string. E.g. using

simpleinvoices/index.php?module=invoices&tax[0][0]=2

I’m using tax = 2 as 2 is the id for “VAT” in my database – see si_tax table in attached image. I’ve tried other ids and dropped the []][] indexing (for total style invoice) but nothing works, the tax drop down is always blank. Any ideas? ………
Just noticed that quantity does not work either i.e. “&quantity[0]=5” does not cause the first field quantity to be 5.

Also we use mostly the total style invoice (not a list of items). So I’m not sure how tax will work with respect to the tax indexes when there is no list of items? ? Also How would I insert the “gross” value for a total style invoice. I guess I could use an itemised invoice with just one item if I had to.

Thanks,
Trevor

[RRowley]

Don’t think there is any way to do this via the new invoice url.

[trev]

So just to confirm, the page on this site about Invoice Prepopulation is no longer relevant then?

Thanks.

[trev]

I solved this with a python script doing a HTTP post to create a new invoice. Was pretty simple to do (although it would be more involved if authentication were enabled). Happy to share if useful to anyone else.

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