Default account for auto-interest payments

[Donald Allen]

I certainly agree that the affect of the fixes that Derek and others
are suggesting would be desirable (per-account, use the same account
as last reconciliation). But meanwhile, there's a simple workaround
that I've been using for a long time. Just dismiss the auto-interest
dialog without using it. Then enter the interest payment as a normal
transaction in the account's register, with something appropriately
descriptive in the description field (!). Next time you reconcile,
auto-completion will make entering the interest payment easy, filling
in the account on the other side of the transaction, essentially
giving you the behavior everyone's been talking about for the
auto-interest dialog.

/Don

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Sam Varshavchik <mrsam at courier-mta.com> wrote:
> 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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