Default account for auto-interest payments

[Donald Allen]

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Fred Bone <Fred.Bone at dial.pipex.com> wrote:
>
> On 14 May 2008 at 9:35, Derek Atkins said:
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>  > 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 ...

Good post, a point I missed and it seems like others did, too. I
certainly got fooled by the dialog coming up with the wrong account,
and didn't anticipate the behavior you describe, which is nice and
consistent with the way it handles transactions entered via the
register. Maybe the UI and/or the documentation need tweaking, though
I haven't RTFM recently, so it might already be there.

/Don


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