balances on individual tx's wrong in register (was: no subject)

[Derek Atkins]

Yes, you're right.  And yes, I can reproduce this problem, but I don't
know a good way to _fix_ it.  In short: running balances are HARD.

Here's the problem: the register is only a partial view of the
account.  For example, you can limit your view to, say, the last 50
transactions.  When you change the sort order you change the subset of
the account you are viewing.  How do you know the initial balance
outside the area you are looking?

To take your example, assume you have 3 transactions (let's call them
a, b, and c in the "standard" sort order) but you're only viewing 2 (b
and c).  In the case of the 'standard' sort order, everything works
fine and the running balances are in order (for obvious reasons).
However, if you change the order such that you are now viewing, say, b
and a, there is no easy way to determine that 'a' was left off.  Now,
multiply this to thousands of transactions and you quickly see the
problem.

Feel free to file a bug report at bugzilla.gnome.org, but honestly I
can't think of a good way to support what you want.

-derek

Olaf Faaland <ofaaland@attbi.com> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> I noticed this (running balances wrong in register), too.
> 
> On my machine, I believe it occurred after I switched the display order in the 
> register from the default order to "Date Entered", but I hadn't gotten around 
> to trying to re-create it yet.  I use the xml backend.  My last cvs update 
> was 6/29/02.  I just started using cvs.
> 
> So my steps to re-create just now:
> 
> Created 2 new accounts, "Savings" and "Other Savings", both top-level bank 
> accounts
> Opened a register window for "Savings"
> Made the following three entries, in the order given:
> 
> 6/1/02  "Test Entry 1" Other Savings Deposit:$10
> 6/2/02  "Test Entry 2" Other Savings Deposit $20
> 5/29/02 "Test Entry 3" Other Savings Deposit $30
> 
> Then chose View->Sort Order->Date of Entry.
> 
> Now I get (abbreviated):
> 
> Test Entry 1 : Bal $40
> Test Entry 2 : Bal $60
> Test Entry 3 : Bal $30
> 
> By the way, perhaps that choice should be labeled "Entry Order" rather than 
> "Date of Entry", unless the order within a group of tx's entered within a 
> single day is genuinely not entry order.
> 
> Olaf
> 
> 
> On Saturday 29 June 2002 09:38 am, Eildert Groeneveld wrote:
> > balance screwed up?
> > in the current cvs head I observe that the balance in an account stops
> > accumulating the individual transactions. Has someone else observed the
> > same? Secondly, it seems that the total market value of stocks are not
> > computed any more (share prices are fetched ok from Yahoo).
> > Any idea?
> >
> > greetings
> >
> > Eildert
> 
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