[GNC-dev] Multi-account actions

[Fross, Michael]

Hi John. If I can go to 10 transactions and change them 1 by 1, what’s the
difference if can be iterated through, making the same change in each? I
must be missing something.

I’m not a gnucash dev, but thought I would ask as I like Jean’s idea.

Michael

On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 10:40 PM John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

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> > On Aug 30, 2020, at 10:32 AM, jean laroche <ripngo at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Devs,
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> > I have 2 PRs that I submitted for multi-account actions.
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> > With these PRs, the user can select multiple accounts in the main
> account view, then:
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> > - Delete multiple accounts in one shot,
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> > - Edit multiple accounts in one shot (change the notes, the flags, the
> color, the currency, or move them to a different parent).
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> > I also want to add a "duplicate" action where the user can duplicate the
> selected account(s).
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> > All this of course isn't very useful if you already have your account
> tree and you never change it. But it's very useful, in my view if you need
> to setup your account tree or if you regularly need to add accounts.
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> > Also, it's part of an effort to make GC more user friendly, offering
> features that are common in nearly all software (select multiple, then do
> something).
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> > I'm afraid that these PR will just be ignored, because some of the devs
> just don't look favorably upon them (John for example).
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> > I'd like to ask devs to chime in on that. My argument is that
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> > - It makes the user's life easier.
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> > - It adds a feature to GC that is expected in most software (of any
> kind), select multiple then do something.
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> I don't have a problem with cosmetic changes like colors, notes, or names.
> Anything like currency or parents that can affect the accounting logic
> shouldn't be permitted unless all of the accounts have no splits. IOW the
> use case you proposed on the PR, shuffling things around when setting up a
> book, is fine. Doing any of that after creating splits can change the
> meaning of the splits and can't be permitted.
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> GnuCash is not like "all other software". Just because spreadsheets let
> you jump off the bridge doesn't mean that GnuCash should. ;-)
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> Regards,
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> John Ralls
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