Any Interest in Configurable Imbalance name

Derrick Hudson dman at dman13.dyndns.org
Sat Jan 5 12:09:18 EST 2008


On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 08:21:32AM -0500, Donald Allen wrote:
| On Jan 4, 2008 5:34 PM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
| > Adam Funk <a24061 at ducksburg.com> writes:
| >
| > > Didn't 1.8 create Orphan-* or Imbalance-* accounts too (perhaps just
| > > the former)?  I'm almost sure I've had this (IMHO) problem since I
| > > started using it.
| >
| > I'm PRETTY sure that the Orphan-* and Imbalance-* accounts started
| > in 2.0, but it COULD have been 1.8..  It's been half a decade.
| 
| I'm more than pretty sure that it began in 2.0.

I am certain that they were introduced in 2.0.

Earlier versions of GnuCash allowed a split to have no account
associated with it.  (this is the loophole that allowed gnc to see a
not-correctly-balanced transaction as balanced)

Starting with 2.0, splits must reference an account.  The Orphan-*
account was introduced for backwards compatibility with existing
files; the Imbalance-* account was introduced to provide for
structural validity of newly entered data.

The Orphan-* account is a placeholder for all of the splits in an
existing data file that have no account.  It does not exist for a new
file, and can be deleted if the existing transactions are corrected.

The Imbalance-* account is created in situations where previously the
transaction would be commited with a split with no account.

-D

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