Question regarding documenting Reversing Transactions

David T. sunfish62 at yahoo.com
Wed May 10 12:31:04 EDT 2017


Geert,

It took a little bit, but I have added Bug 782455 as an enhancement request. It’s not a uservoice page, but I have never liked that tool anyway.

David

> On Apr 28, 2017, at 3:26 PM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be> wrote:
> 
> On woensdag 26 april 2017 00:39:08 CEST Mike or Penny Novack wrote:
>> On 4/25/2017 2:21 PM, david.carlson.417 wrote:
>>> David T,
>>> My personal preference would be to   replace the line under the
>>> description with a comment similar to "Reverses transaction dated
>>> mm/dd/yyyy" David C
>> 
>> And here is where I would express a strong preference for "free form"
>> because SIMPLY reversing a transaction is not the only sort of
>> "reversing" transaction. I might be wanting to say things like
>> "correcting the amount" or "posting to correct account", etc.
>> 
> If with "Free form" you mean "User editable" I can agree.
> 
> However the default text should definitely mention "Reversing" as that's the 
> true intended behavior of the "Revert transaction" menu option.
> 
> Other than tat it's great to see others are creatively using it to avoid 
> laborious typing.
> 
> On vrijdag 28 april 2017 01:40:15 CEST Adrien Monteleone wrote:
>> Could an additional “jump” entry be placed in the context menu for reversed
>> transactions? Instead of the current jump to the ledger on the other side
>> of a split, this jump would hop to the transaction that has been reversed.
>> 
> Anything is possible as long as there's someone with time available to 
> implement :)
> 
> More seriously, while certainly possible it will be more challenging to 
> implement this without cluttering the interface and avoid confusion because of 
> the other meaning of jump. Still such a direct link could be very convenient.
> 
>> An additional UI helper might be to use the NUM or ACTION fields to indicate
>> that this is a Reversing/Correcting transaction.
>> 
> Good suggestion as well.
> 
> 
> 
> David T., 
> 
> Thanks for starting the discussion. You brought up a good point and it 
> solicited several good additional suggestions. As far as I'm concerned please 
> go ahead and file it as an enhancement request. I think our uservoice instance 
> [1] is the best spot for this as it allows vote. This gives useful feedback 
> about what users consider priority with regards to new features to add.
> 
> Geert
> 
> [1] https://gnucash.uservoice.com/forums/101223-feature-request
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