Account name change

[Donald Allen]

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:

> Donald Allen <donaldcallen at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Running 2.4.4 on a Slackware 13.1 64-bit system, I just edited an
> (expense)
> > account from the COA and changed its name. I then went to an account
> > register and tried to change a split to that account using its new name.
> The
> > new name was not found/recognized, but the old name was. I saved the
> (xml)
> > file and tried again. Same behavior. So I quit and restarted gnucash and
> now
> > I was able to use the new account name to change the split. I could be
> > hallucinating, but I'm almost certain that in prior versions of Gnucash,
> > account name changes took place globally and immediately. This feels to
> me
> > like a bug.
>
> Did you try closing and re-opening the Account Register?
>

No, and now I can't reproduce the problem. I think I had a register open for
the account whose name I changed, but I just tried that, and it was handled
correctly (the register's tab reflected the new name immediately and the new
account name was available to splits).


>
> > Comments?
>
> I agree that the change *should* be seen immediately.
>

And that's what I'm seeing now. I apparently hit a case that isn't handled
correctly. I'll play with it a bit more to try to reproduce it.

/Don



>
> > /Don
>
> -derek
>
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