gnucash-user Digest, Vol 170, Issue 39

[Greg Grotsky]

Based on your recommendation, I have opened a bug report for this issue:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=782934

Thanks for the help.
-Greg

On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 9:27 AM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
wrote:

> On vrijdag 19 mei 2017 16:09:15 CEST John Ralls wrote:
> > > On May 18, 2017, at 11:59 PM, Geert Janssens <
> geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
> > > wrote:>
> > > On vrijdag 19 mei 2017 04:59:28 CEST Greg Grotsky wrote:
> > >> That is not a possibility, I tried it but when you select the delete
> > >> function and it allows you to pick a new account it will only display
> > >> accounts that are of type "bank" and not "credit card".
> > >
> > > Which seems like another case of being too strict. Can you file a bug
> > > report [1] for this, please ? That way it will be remembered.
> >
> > Aren't we already tracking this on
> > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=603379?
> > <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=603379?>
> >
> > Regards,
> > John Ralls
>
> It's a related issue, but not the same. The code path followed when
> deleting
> an account and figuring out which other accounts are valid candidates for
> the
> orphaned splits it totally unrelated to the code handling disabling account
> type changes.
>
> It happened to come up in the same discussion about changing an account
> type
> but are in fact two distinct use cases.
>
> I prefer to track them in separate bugs as I don't know whether both parts
> will be fixed in time for 2.6.17.
>
> Geert
>