Moving transactions retrospectively

[Mike or Penny Novack]

I will start by pointing out that I have ZERO experience with the 
business features. But as a retired senior analyst, I know how I would 
attack this problem to find our what is or is not possible.

a) I would created a copy of my books for test purposes. I would make 
the name of this file with test in its name to help prevent accidental 
production use.

b) I would then investigate (using this test file what is or is not 
POSSIBLE with the direct editing of transactions in the A/R account. Yes 
I know, using the business features you aren't advised to do anything in 
this register manually. But I suspect:

c) Opening a transaction in this register (one where I wanted to change 
the income account) I would look at it (Looking is almost always safe). 
If it looked normal, I would then see what happened if I changed the 
income account(the account being credited)  from what it currently is to 
what is desired. The worst thing that could happen is that the TEST FILE 
gets corrupted. But perhaps this would work.

Michael D Novack

PS: When you want to change the debit account of a transaction you view 
the transaction from the register of the credit account; when you want 
to change the credit account of a transaction, you work from the 
register of the debit account. People suggesting the transaction be 
changed by the "split" facility are trying to do things the hard way.



On 8/7/2016 4:57 PM, Adam wrote:
> On 03/08/2016 22:26, Adam wrote:
>> On 03/08/2016 01:19, Chris Good wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I've got some business accounts set up & have some income assigned
>>>> to an
>>>> income account from marking invoices as paid. I'd now like to split 
>>>> the
>>>> recorded entries into two sets, under two different income 
>>>> accounts. Is
>>>> this possible?
>>>>
>>> Hi Adam,
>>>
>>> I believe if you are only splitting the income split into 2 income
>>> splits,
>>> that this will not cause any problems.
>> I actually mean to move the entry to another income account. I don't
>> want to split it into two parts.
>
> OK, on reflection, I think I understand - I could use the split as the 
> mechanism of moving the transaction, so it ends up 100% in the new 
> account. The trouble is GNUCash won't let me mess with the split 
> without unposting the invoice and I think when I do that it messes up 
> the invoice payment records.
>
> Adam