Default account for auto-interest payments

[Derek Atkins]

Sam Varshavchik <mrsam at courier-mta.com> writes:

> 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.

Sorry, I'm talking about something slightly different.  I'm talking
about the auto-payment feature when you reconcile a CC account.  The
dialog that comes up is the same code as the auto-interest.

-derek

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