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

[Robert Heller]

At Thu, 21 Sep 2006 11:37:35 -0400 Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote:

> 
> 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.

I am doing it from an account other than the Imbalance account
(actually I also tried it there and got an error popup telling me I
can't do that [which I understood!]).

So here is *exactly* what I am doing, step by step:

1) click on the split, highlighting it.

2) Select 'Split' on the toolbar, which opens the split lines.

3a) If I leave the original line highlighted (main transaction line)
and right click on the 'offending' line and select "Delete
Transaction", I get a warning dialog, which if I accept, causes the
*whole* transaction to vanish, including a second copy of the split. For
some reason GnuCash is creating two transactions for these splits, which
are locked together.  One transaction deposits the PayPal cash back and
the other withdraws the actual expenditure, otherwise the two
transactions are identical.

OR

3b) If I highlight the offending line (selecting with the left button)
and then right click on it and select "Delete Transaction", nothing at
all happens.

> 
> -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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