New Transaction field in the register

[Volker Englisch]

On 02/10/2010 10:43 PM, Mike Alexander wrote:
> --On February 10, 2010 8:49:23 PM -0500 Volker Englisch 
> <Volker at englisch.us> wrote:
> 
>> Does an option exist that allows me to suppress the display of these
>> newly displayed transaction dates and go back to the former display?
>>
>> If such an option doesn't exist what would happen if I were to delete
>> those dates?  Would it mess up my data file/reports/etc.?
> 
> I dislike this change too, in fact I reverted it in my copy of GnuCash.
> 
> These dates have always been there in the data, they just weren't 
> displayed or editable before.  They are the date the transaction was 
> entered into the file (although I don't know why you have a entry date 
> that is several years before the posted date for one transaction).

It appears that for a few companies that are automatically charging my 
credit card the date is always the same date somewhere way in the past - 
just useless to me.

> You 
> can't get rid of them in the file, but an option to not display them, or 
> perhaps a better way to display them so they don't get mixed up with the 
> posted dates, would be nice.

I could see the display working better if the dates were displayed in a 
different font, size, color or weight.

-- 
Volker Englisch