[GNC] Include unused accounts in budgets, and behaviour of placeholder accounts in budgets

Matthew Pounsett matt at conundrum.com
Sat Apr 14 10:37:23 EDT 2018


On 13 April 2018 at 11:11, Ankur Sinha <sanjay.ankur at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've a query regarding placeholder accounts in the budget view too. My
> "dining" account has two sub accounts: "drinks", and "food", for
> example. Dining is a "placeholder" account and the values associated
> with it show in light grey colour in the budget view. When I'd entered
> my budgets for "food" and "drink", the total dining budget was the total
> sum, as expected. However, I clicked on the value for "Dining", by
> mistake, and the editable text box showed up, and now it's become an
> editable field in black. The value is no longer updated as the sum of
> "food" and "drinks". Is there some way to revert it to the original "sum
> of all sub accounts" behaviour?
>
> I haven't done the transition to 3.0 yet, but in 2.x this can be cleared
by deleting any text in the field.
Double-click the field, make sure the complete number is selected, hit
Delete (or Backspace) and then Enter.

If that doesn't work, then as David says it's probably a bug you should
file.


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