Default account for auto-interest payments

[Fred Bone]

On 14 May 2008 at 9:35, Derek Atkins said:

> 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.

I still can't see what the OP's problem is. As soon as you tab out of the 
"Description" box, it identifies the correct accounts(*). It does, 
unfortunately, manage to treat it as a payment-in, so you ned to enter a 
negative amount in the first place, but hey ...

(*) at least, it does if you have the sense to use the same Description 
text as last time ...