Dynamic cursors in SplitLedger?

[Derek Atkins]

Conrad Canterford <conrad@mail.watersprite.com.au> writes:

> Derek Atkins wrote:
> 
>  > So the question is, how can I easily make this dynamic cursor based
>  > on the <type> entry?  Can the ledger code handle something like
>  > this?  Or do I have to live with the possibility of someone
>  > entering fields improperly and just let them shoot themselves in
>  > the foot? -derek
> 
> Completely unrelated to the technical question, I'd be suggesting 
> letting people do what they please. My reason? Well I haven't really 
> thought it through, but something that Gnucash doesn't enforce but 
> probably should be available from a business perspective is the need to 
> use correcting transactions rather than just changing a wrong transaction.
> By this I mean that if, for example, an transaction was entered as being 
> for $100 when it should have been entered for $90 then you should 
> actually use a second transaction for -$10 to correct that, rather than 
> just changing the $100 to $90. In a A/R and A/P sense, note that this is 
> NOT a payment and should not be treated as such!

Indeed... You post an 'invoice' of $-10.  You _can_ insert negative
values :)

> Conrad.

-derek

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