How the date populates when transactions are duplicated

[David T.]

Glad you found a solution that works for you, although I’m scratching my head about your comment regarding “tabbing through” autofill. Once autofill supplies you a transaction, the entire transaction is duplicated (including notes and comments), and pressing enter commits it, which is a pretty quick process, all told. There is no need to tab through all fields.

Regardless, glad you have it sorted.
David

> On Apr 25, 2016, at 5:45 AM, will Snow <wsnow at gmx.com> wrote:
> 
>   Thanks David,
> 
>   I found autofill takes longer, it's quicker to duplicate the record and
>   just enter a date rather than tabbing though and autofilling. However,
>   it looks as though the scheduled transactions feature solves the issue
>   I was having.
> 
>   Thanks again,
>   Will
> 
>   Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2016 at 2:13 PM
>   From: David <sunfish62 at yahoo.com>
>   To: "will Snow" <wsnow at gmx.com>, gnucash-devel at gnucash.org
>   Subject: Re: How the date populates when transactions are duplicated
> 
>   Will,
> 
>   Not that I'm a programmer or anything, but I can't see why you'd do
>   this. It seems to me that a user could set the date to their starting
>   point and use autofill to create their transactions. Having yet another
>   preference setting will only add to general user confusion, I think.
> 
>   David
>     __________________________________________________________________
> 
>   From: will Snow <wsnow at gmx.com>
>   Sent: Sat Apr 23 06:35:46 EST 2016
>   To: gnucash-devel at gnucash.org
>   Subject: How the date populates when transactions are duplicated
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I noticed that when transactions are duplicated the date field uses the latest d
> ate rather than the date of the original transaction. I tend to do my accounts a
> ll at once towards the end of the year so this seems to slow me down quite a lot
> as I have to enter an entire date all the time rather than just bumping up the
> day in the date field. So I was thinking about adding an option somewhere where
> the user can specify how the date field populates on duplication (or perhaps thi
> s already exists?).
> 
> It looks as though the relevant code is inside src/gnome-utils/dialog-dup-trans.
> c
> and the flow goes as: gnc_dup_trans_dialog -> gnc_dup_trans_dialog_internal -> g
> nc_dup_trans_dialog_create
> 
> Moreover, it looks as though date and date_p are key variables but I'm not sure
> on where to pull the date stored in the transaction in the parent window. Or if
> I should be doing it in some other way?
> 
> Any advice is greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Will
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