Problem - This account register is read-only

[Yawar Amin]

On 2010-11-09, at 19:35, Anthony Dardis wrote:

> Accounts like that can be used as "generic" accounts: so you might have Liabilities:Credit Cards as a place holder, then a Visa card, an Amex card, etc., below that. You wouldn't want to post transactions to the Credit Cards account, only to the particular card accounts.
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> On Tue, 09 Nov 2010 13:09:53 -0500, John Deakin <john at humanaspects.co.uk> wrote:
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>> Hope you can help.
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>> When I open Gnucash I get a warning box with the header as in the e-mail subject. The text in the box is:
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>> "This account may not be edited.  If you want to edit transactions in this register, please open the account options and turn off the placeholder checkbox.”

See also BugZilla bug # 544546,[1] which suggests calling them ‘immutable’ accounts.

Regards,

Yawar

[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=544546

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