Issues with Placeholder Accounts

Geert Janssens geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be
Sat Feb 11 05:30:07 EST 2017


Op zaterdag 11 februari 2017 14:57:37 CET schreef 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.

Thanks!

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

Ok.

Geert


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