Help -- extra (blank) transaction in a split!

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Thu Sep 21 11:37:35 EDT 2006


You forgot to CC gnucash-user....

Quoting Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com>:

> At Thu, 21 Sep 2006 10:52:26 -0400 Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote:
>
>>
>> Works fine for me.  The menu item is labeled "Delete Transaction"
>> but it will just delete the split.  Perhaps we should try harder to
>> change the context menu item from "Delete Transaction" to "Delete Split"
>> in this case...  but no, it does not delete the whole transaction.
>>
>> I just verified this myself, so, I'm afraid that you are confused.
>
> Or maybe my GnuCash install is confused.

Or.... which register are you using?  It wont let you delete the split
tied to the current register.  So if you're trying from the Imbalance
account, that's your problem.   Open a different register and do it
from there.

-derek

> If I highlight the main transaction line (the top one) and right click
> on the bogus line and select 'delete transaction' the I get a dialog
> box warning me about deleting the transaction and if I accecpt, the
> whole transaction is deleted.  If I highlight just the line I want to
> delete, the delete transaction menu item does nothing at all (no popups
> or anything).  In *both* cases I am right clicking on the line I want
> to delete.
>
> I am running GnuCash 2.0.1, installed from RPMs on a CentOS 4.3 system.
> RPMs downloaded from under http://people.redhat.com/notting/gnucash/2.0/
> (RHEL 4 RPMS):
>
> sauron.deepsoft.com% dir /extra/gnucash-2.0.1-rpms/
> aqbanking-2.1.0-1.rhel4.i386.rpm
> gnucash-2.0.1-4.rhel4.i386.rpm
> guile-1.6.7-1.rhel4.i386.rpm
> gwenhywfar-2.3.0-1.rhel4.i386.rpm
> libofx-0.8.0-1.rhel4.i386.rpm
> perl-Finance-Quote-1.11-1.rhel4.noarch.rpm
> perl-HTML-TableExtract-2.07-1.rhel4.noarch.rpm
>
> Oh, I am NOT running Gnome OR KDE, if that makes any difference...
>
>>
>> -derek
>>
>> Quoting Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com>:
>>
>> > At Thu, 21 Sep 2006 10:30:40 -0400 Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >> um, did you try to just right-click on that line and delete it?
>> >
>> > That deletes the whole split transaction!
>> >
>> >>
>> >> -derek
>> >>
>> >> Quoting Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com>:
>> >>
>> >> > Refer to the screenshot at the URL:
>> >> >
>> >> > http://www.deepsoft.com/split.png
>> >> >
>> >> > Due to a small math error, I ended up with a extra imbalance.  After
>> >> > fixing it, I then ended up with a 'blank' imbalance transaction.  How
>> >> > do I get rid of this?  Do I have to completely delete the split and
>> >> > re-enter it from scratch?
>> >> >
>> >> >
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>> > Robert Heller             -- 978-544-6933
>> > Deepwoods Software        -- Linux Installation and Administration
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>> > heller at deepsoft.com       -- Contract Programming: C/C++, Tcl/Tk
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>>
>
> --
> Robert Heller             -- 978-544-6933
> Deepwoods Software        -- Linux Installation and Administration
> http://www.deepsoft.com/  -- Web Hosting, with CGI and Database
> heller at deepsoft.com       -- Contract Programming: C/C++, Tcl/Tk
>
>



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       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
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