Transaction Posted Time

John Ralls jralls at ceridwen.us
Mon Jun 20 16:43:18 EDT 2016


> On Jun 20, 2016, at 12:36 PM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be> wrote:
> 
> On Monday 20 June 2016 12:14:24 John Ralls wrote:
> > > Hi John,
> > > 
> > > In addition to the time stamp use cases Christian already mentioned,
> > > I believe the time stamp is also relevant for sorting entries on an
> > > invoice/bill ledger. This was implemented as a hack by Christian
> > > IIRC such that to move an entry up or down the list on the same
> > > day, internally the post dates of the two entries would be swapped.
> > > As the post times currently all differ, this would effectively
> > > alter the sorting order. If all post times will be normalized this
> > > hack will no longer work. That's one other case to keep in mind
> > > when dropping post times.
> > > 
> > > Other than that I'm fine with making the time change for the next
> > > release.
> > Geert,
> > 
> > Where is that code?
> > 
> > Regards,
> > John Ralls
>  
> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/blob/master/src/business/business-ledger/gncEntryLedger.c#L975
>  
> Which is called from gnc_invoice_window_entryUpCB and gnc_invoice_window_entryUpCB in
> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/blob/master/src/business/business-gnome/dialog-invoice.c
>  
> These in turn get called by callbacks for gui buttons (gnc_plugin_page_invoice_cmd_entryUp/Down). These callbacks can be found in
> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/blob/master/src/business/business-gnome/gnc-plugin-page-invoice.c

Geert,

No problem then. That adjusts a GncEntry's date_entered, not a Transaction's date_posted.

Regards,
John Ralls





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