docstatus = 3 "Archived Draft"

[aakvatech]

Further to https://github.com/frappe/erpnext/issues/8765

Leaving holes in invoice numbers is an issue in Tanzania as well.

All invoices and journals should have a stage like "Archived Draft" that can only be ammended to to be Submitted. This will create a clear distinction between those Drafts that are current and actually draft, and mark "Archived Draft" for items that are equivalent to "Cancelled and not issued" (generally marked with 2 diagonal lines and written cancelled in physical invoice/journal books for auditors to be satisfied that the document was indeed not issued and would NOT be issued as is.

"Archived Draft" can be deleted later, but first step would be for it to be "Archived Draft" and then deleted, just like a submitted document is "Cancelled" first and then "Deleted"

Describe alternatives you've considered
It would be possible to create a report for each doctype that shows which documents were deleted after cancellation to show the holes, but you can imagine each doctype created would need it.

[ankush]

#21515 this proposal seems better.