Data Entry Problem

Gerald Ellis gellis at aeneas.net
Wed Feb 8 13:31:29 EST 2017


Maf and Colin:

You are bot correct.  Sorry for the confusion, but I think I have it
straight now. 
Thanks for the assistance and training.

Gerald
On Wed, 2017-02-08 at 17:50 +0000, Maf. King wrote:
> On Wednesday, 8 February 2017 11:36:29 GMT Gerald Ellis wrote:
> > 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
> 
> Hi Gerald.
> 
> You are misunderstanding.
> 
> View -> Filter By -> Date -> Show All or Set a range to show,
> starting on 
> Start Date and ending on End Date.
> 
> I see nothing in the filter dialog that would make me think the view
> filter 
> would *exclude* a range, rather than limit to the set range.
> 
> and when you say "the transaction failed", what you mean is "I
> entered the 
> transaction correctly, and GC recorded it correctly, but my view of
> the 
> register hid half of the transaction from me ( because I  told GC to
> only show 
> transactions prior to the date of the new one I entered)"
> 
> 0.02
> Maf.
> 
> 


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