QFX import problems

Benoit Grégoire bock at step.polymtl.ca
Thu Aug 5 18:08:20 EDT 2004


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On Thursday 05 August 2004 05:18 pm, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Milind Kamble <mbkads at yahoo.com> writes:
> > I am sorry. That was a false alarm.
> > The buttons work correctly.
> > The reason I was thrown off was because when the
> > "Generic import transaction matcher" window shows up,
> > the account balance is updated too even before I
> > commit, and when I hit cancel, I was seeing the
> > balances change back (updated as each transaction was
> > discarded). I mistakenly thought that the balance was
> > getting updated because of a commit. My apologies.
>
> Arguably the accounts should not be touched until the user clicks
> "OK"...  I.e., IMHO the transactions should never be "committed" to
> the CoA until the user ok's the import.  The current behavior can have
> VERY bad side-effects with a multiuser sql backend!

Well, since I was told at the time not to use the engine's revert function, 
there isn't much choice is there...

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Benoit Grégoire, http://benoitg.coeus.ca/
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