QFX import problems

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Thu Aug 5 17:18:04 EDT 2004


Milind Kamble <mbkads at yahoo.com> writes:

> I am sorry. That was a false alarm. 
> The buttons work correctly. 
> The reason I was thrown off was because when the
> "Generic import transaction matcher" window shows up,
> the account balance is updated too even before I
> commit, and when I hit cancel, I was seeing the
> balances change back (updated as each transaction was
> discarded). I mistakenly thought that the balance was
> getting updated because of a commit. My apologies.

Arguably the accounts should not be touched until the user clicks
"OK"...  I.e., IMHO the transactions should never be "committed" to
the CoA until the user ok's the import.  The current behavior can have
VERY bad side-effects with a multiuser sql backend!

-derek
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