Default account for auto-interest payments

[Sam Varshavchik]

Derek Atkins writes:

> 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*

Uh, what does "payment" mean, in this context? Because I've already 
reconciled the same account more than once, and each time I had to manually 
select the expense account for the interest bucket, posting the resulting 
entry to the register, with the correct interest expense account. The next 
time I went to reconcile the account, the auto-interest dialog still came up 
with the bad default.


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