Issues with an Opening Balance in GnuCash

[David T.]

Sorry, Geert, I didn’t mean to put intentions on you; I was summarizing my recollection of the various discussions over the years--most specifically, the thread that begins at https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2015-January/057506.html <https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2015-January/057506.html>. That particular thread had quite a bit of opinion, without a clear resolution.

BTW, the UserVoice entry you cite was only added a month or so ago, and so its lack of votes may have more to do with that, than actual user preferences.

Cheers,
David

> On Jun 24, 2016, at 12:23 PM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be> wrote:
> 
> On Friday 24 June 2016 11:54:37 David T. via gnucash-user wrote:
> > John S.,
> > 
> > The issue of automatic creation of splits to the Orphan-XXX accounts
> > has been discussed at length over the years, without any consensus
> > coming out of the discussions. I believe that the developers have
> > generally felt that per transaction notification would be overly
> > intrusive, and thus the option has not been implemented.
>  
> This is not really the motivation, at least not for me. I actually think it's a fair request to have more control over this behavior as a user. It's just lower on my list priorities than other things and my time is currently very limited.
>  
> There is a uservoice feature request concerning this (auto creation of splits in the Imbalance accounts):
> https://gnucash.uservoice.com/forums/101223-feature-request/suggestions/14280990-prevent-entry-of-transactions-with-an-imbalance <https://gnucash.uservoice.com/forums/101223-feature-request/suggestions/14280990-prevent-entry-of-transactions-with-an-imbalance>
>  
> So far it hasn't gained much votes yet, so I looks it's also low priority for most users.
>  
> There are also several enhancement requests in this area on bugzilla. So it is being tracked but someone will need to step up to actually implement the improvements.
>  
> Geert