Sub Account Balance Column in 2.5.1

[Geert Janssens]

On Saturday 18 May 2013 17:21:55 Robert Fewell wrote:
> Geert has pointed out that I have left of this column when showing a sub
> account view. I was wondering if this is required as I can not really see
> the point. As far as I can tell, its a running total in what ever the sort
> order is across the sub accounts. This may be difficult as the transactions
> when loaded will be in date order and then the sort model changes the paths
> to rearrange them unlike the old register, all the transactions would be in
> the sorted order.
> 
> So if you think we need it, I will try and figure it out ?
> 
> On a similar note, is there any point in showing the balance figures
> generally if the sort order is not by date, not sure it makes sense if you
> say sort by description ?
> 
> I was considering blanking the entries if the sort order is not by date.
> 
> Robert
> _______________________________________________
> gnucash-devel mailing list
> gnucash-devel at gnucash.org
> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel

For others to follow, I had opened a bug report for this (1), because by coincidence I had just 
read another bug report by a user that complained the running balances in a subaccounts 
register didn't match the running balances on a report for that subaccounts register (2). So 
at least this user was paying attention to the running balances.

I'm personally undecided if that means we should readd these in the new register code. I 
haven't used the subaccount register at all, so I don't see use cases myself.

Are there others that do use this ?

Geert


(1) https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=700101
(2) https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=682800