YoungL

Hi,

Basically I had been using the IP.Subscriptions system for a long time and had a fair few records in there. Now whilst IP.Nexus imports the purchase records it does not import the transactions. So I built a script in php to import all of the IP.Subscriptions and create their invoices, transaction records and customers to the nexus system. This worked well. Each member can now see their previous subscription purchases in Nexus and I can see them in the ACP. I can see the income from everything begining 2012 onwards using the reports but the reports just will not let me go anywhere before 2012.

Even if I manually type in a timestamp to say 2009 in the URL it loads it, I can see all the data and then it refreshes back to 2012. Is there a particular reason why these reports wont work for any data before 2012?

Is there any reason also why by default Nexus doesn't import the data from IP.Subscriptions with regards to transactions? It was pretty simple to write a few SQL queries and a basic PHP script?

Any ideas greatly appreciated

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