Empty transactions in General Ledger

Carsten Rinke carsten.rinke at gmx.de
Wed Jun 26 13:33:49 EDT 2013


Ok, ok, just to clarify what made me be confused during the latest 
threads about General Ledgers for those interested:

There are 4 items that somehow relate to the term General Ledger

- The General Ledger called by Tools -> General Ledger
This one really brings up a new register (or ledger) that seems to list 
the transactions of the past month.
Related bugs
*Bug 346159* <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=346159> 
-General Ledger seems to confuse the blank transaction
(not sure if this is really supposed to be part of 2.6.0)

- There is a General Ledger REPORT to be called with 
Report->Assets&Liabilities->General Ledger
This one also lists transaction, but let you choose time period, 
accounts, display settings (like groups, sorting, sub-totals) etc.

- There is the Account Report and the Account Transaction Report found 
in the Reports menu
Only avaiable if a register is open, whereas the Account Report lists 
all the transactions from the top-register (the one you are just looking 
at, in case there are several open registers), and the Account 
Transaction Report only displays a selected transaction from that 
register or none. The reports have the head line "General Ledger Report"
Related bugs
*Bug 334939* <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=334939> 
-Account Report and Account Transaction Report are apparently the same, 
but different
*Bug 696492* <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=696492> -Change 
report name in menu or in report output to be consistent

(maybe there are even some more bugs connected to them, just listing 
those that I know of)

Carsten

On 06/26/2013 04:23 PM, David Carlson wrote:
> On Wednesday, 6/26/2013 7:31 AM, Michael Hendry wrote:
>> On 26 Jun 2013, at 13:20, Carsten Rinke <carsten.rinke at gmx.de> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Michael,
>>>   
>>> how exactly do you open the General Ledger tab?
>>> What menu item do you click?
>>>   
>> Tools > General Ledger
>>
>> Michael
>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>> Carsten
>>>   
>>> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 26. Juni 2013 um 10:26 Uhr
>>> Von: "Michael Hendry" <hendry.michael at gmail.com>
>>> An: "gnucash-user at gnucash.org list" <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
>>> Betreff: Empty transactions in General Ledger
>>>
>>>
>>> Now using 2.4.13 with Mac OS X 10.8.4, I was puzzled by the four blank transactions appearing with today's date in my General Ledger tab.
>>>
>>> Realising that I had tabs open for three credit cards and one bank account, I closed each of these in turn, and saw the date disappear from each of these transactions, one by one.
>>>
>>> Closing the General Ledger tab and re-opening it removed the empty lines.
>>>
>>> Re-opening the bank and credit card accounts brings back one empty transaction for each account (provided the General Ledger tab is closed and re-opened).
>>>
>>> I suspect that this is a cosmetic problem only, and reflects the blank transaction (with today's date already entered) at the bottom of each asset account's tab.
>>>
>>> Michael
>>>
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> That behavior has been there for several years.
> bug 541386 is one of the bug reports.
>
> However, I think that it has been fixed in release 2.5.x, so it should
> be gone from the 2.6.0 stable release.
>
> David C
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