Data Entry Problem

[Gerald Ellis]

Derek:

Perhaps I am misunderstanding the filter start and end dates.
I thought that the start date was the first date to stop displaying
entries and the end date was the day to start displaying entries again.
That is the reason for the question, I have three transactions on Feb
1, 2017 (the stop date entered in the filter) that worked but then the
entries after the stop date were not being displayed, not just the Feb
3,2017 but all entries after Feb 1, 2017 failed.  So what does the STOP
date on the filter do?

Gerald
On Wed, 2017-02-08 at 12:11 -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Gerald Ellis <gellis at aeneas.net> writes:
> 
> > Derek:
> > Yes - The account balance did change once the transaction was
> > displayed. And, Yes, I did have a Filter on Date set to start on
> > 11-14-
> > 16 and end on 2-1-17.  You may have noticed that I had three
> > transaction in the check register dated 2-1-17 and they all work
> > properly.  As I told Maf, I did remove the filter all together and
> > then
> > went to the Expense register and selected the entry missing fron
> > the
> > check register the "Jumped" back to the check register and there it
> > was
> > just as I had entered it.  So, my question now is Why did the three
> > entries for Feb 1, 2017 work when the Stop Date of the filter was
> > set
> > to Feb 1, 2017 and the transaction for Feb 3, 2017 failed?  Do we
> > need
> > to look at the code for the filter stop date, or could something in
> > my
> > OS have changed the EFFECTIVE date?
> 
> I don't understand your question here.  You had the filter set up to
> show transactions between 11-14-16 and 2-1-17, but then you ask why
> it
> was showing transactions dated 2-1-17 but not 2-3-17?
> 
> It's doing that because that's the end-date you selected.
> 
> I.e., it's a "on and before" end-date, not "before" end-date.
> Therefore, transactions dated on the end-date will show up.  If you
> did
> NOT want to include your Feb 1 transactions then you should have set
> the
> end-date as Jan 31.
> 
> > Thanks for all your help
> > Gerald
> 
> -derek
>