Default account for auto-interest payments

[Derek Atkins]

Andreas Köhler <andi5.py at gmx.net> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Am Montag, den 12.05.2008, 11:38 -0400 schrieb Derek Atkins:
>> Andreas Köhler <andi5.py at gmx.net> writes:
>> 
>> > An alternative would be to have a global gconf setting for the last
>> > account used for auto-interest payments.
>> 
>> But it's not global.  It's per account.  And it's DEFINITELY not
>> global across data files.
>
> A bad alternative, indeed.  Was just a test ;-)
>
>> Now, you COULD use a KVP entry to store it in the Account info.
>
> Or do you think one could save some flag as KVP slot of the payment
> transaction and look up the latest transaction with that flag?  I am not
> sure whether this feature is needed (of course it is ;-)) and which way
> to go.  OTOH, it should not be too hard to implement or break backwards
> compatibility.  So patches are welcome as usual.

Well, what it does NOW is look backwards through the account looking
for the most recent 'payment' transaction.   But we could create a
new KVP entry to prevent the need for the search.  *shrugs*

> -- andi5

-derek

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