Sub Account Balance Column in 2.5.1

[Derek Atkins]

Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be> writes:

> On Saturday 18 May 2013 17:21:55 Robert Fewell wrote:
>> Geert has pointed out that I have left of this column when showing a sub
>> account view. I was wondering if this is required as I can not really see
>> the point. As far as I can tell, its a running total in what ever the sort
>> order is across the sub accounts. This may be difficult as the transactions
>> when loaded will be in date order and then the sort model changes the paths
>> to rearrange them unlike the old register, all the transactions would be in
>> the sorted order.

[snip]
> For others to follow, I had opened a bug report for this (1), because
> by coincidence I had just read another bug report by a user that
> complained the running balances in a subaccounts register didn't match
> the running balances on a report for that subaccounts register (2). So
> at least this user was paying attention to the running balances.
>
> I'm personally undecided if that means we should readd these in the
> new register code. I haven't used the subaccount register at all, so I
> don't see use cases myself.
>
> Are there others that do use this ?

Historically the "balance" column in an "Open Subaccounts" view has just
been the "Split Balance", meaning the balance for the specific
subaccount.  It's not been a "running balance".

To make it a true running balance you would need to recompute each value
every time the register re-sorted.

I wonder if we should just remove the column..  Similarly, what about in
the GL (or Search Results) views?

> Geert

-derek

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