Bug: Missing security question

[Dave Peticolas]

On 27 May 2001 16:17:52 +0200, Klaus Ridder wrote:
> You probably wonder why I'm posting so much here at the moment. This is
> because I do nothing else but gnucash for several days while entering my
> whole finances of 1999 and 2000 from a broken quicken-file to gnucash.
> so I encounter a lot of things ... :)
> 
> 
> The following annoying behaviour took me 2 times a lot of time to search it,
> so probably someone could fix it by adding an additional security question:
> 
> It happened to me 2 times that I accidently booked an expense from the bank
> account to the bank account:
> 
> ExpenseXY        Bank        Bank        $100
> 
> instead of
> 
> ExpenseXY        Bank        Expenses.   $100
> 
> Now I reconcile ("abstimmen") the account. I reconcile "+100", but "-100"
> stays on the other side of the reconcile dialogue.
> At the end, I see a transaction that doesn't belong here ("-100"), so I say
> "delete".
> He asks me "Do you want to delete?" - I say yes.
> And suddenly, the reconcile dialogue doesn't say "0" anymore, because the
> second half of this transaction has also be deleted.
> 
> Solution: A secutity Alert, as it normally occurs when you want to delete a
> reconciled transaction:
> "ATTENTION! You are deleting a reconciled transaction. ... Problems may
> occur ... blah ... Are you REALLY sure you want to do this?"

If I understand correctly, this warning will be in 1.6.0.

dave