Link account balance to an entry in another account?

[AC]

On 2015-04-20 08:18, Colin Law wrote:
> On 20 April 2015 at 16:00, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>>
>>> On Apr 20, 2015, at 7:36 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> AC <gnucash at acarver.net> writes:
>>>
>>>> I don't think that is working quite like I want.  I don't want to be in
>>>> the main account list when I'm working the scratch, I'd rather be in the
>>>> scratch ledger.
>>>
>>> Yeah, umm...  If you want to play with things then you can just be sure
>>> to "Quit without saving".
>>
>> But only with the XML backend! The SQL backend writes every change immediately, so there is no way to quit without saving.
> 
> And of course if you do not have auto save enabled.
> 

Haven't switched to SQL yet but I just went and made two accounts to run
a scratch ledger (each transfers to the other).  I'll just have to
remember to copy the source account current balance over to the opening
transaction whenever I make any changes to the source.