Issues with Placeholder Accounts

[David T.]

> On Feb 11, 2017, at 2:40 PM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be> wrote:
> David,
> 
> I agree with you on this. The current behavior in gnucash is inconsistent and 
> that should be improved. I also think this is a big challenge because this 
> "detail" touches almost all parts of the engine code...
> 
> I propose you record your findings in a bug report including all situations 
> you have encountered so far in which gnucash is changing placeholder accounts. 
> This is not something that will be solved with an easy fix.
> 
> As for your extension to AR/AP accounts this is even harder. Ideally the user 
> interface for business features would handle everything business related so 
> the user would never need to alter anything in these accounts. However this is 
> not the case so sometimes it's still necessary to manually make changes in 
> these accounts. I'm not sure what would be required to get that completely 
> worked out, but I believe again this is a fairly big change.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Geert

Geert,

I have submitted two separate bugs—one for the Scrub Lots issue (bug 778480), the other for the more general issue of editing splits for Placeholder accounts (bug 778481). I think the two are related, but probably better addressed separately.

Offhand, I don’t know if there are other such situations.

David