Closing Book causes Imbalance????

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

replicon <replicon at gmail.com> writes:

[snip]
> .... BTW is there a way to enable a "Always display a warning if there is
> imbalance" message? There are zero scenarios where it's acceptable to me to
> create a transaction that results in a "Imbalance-USD" account. Usually, I
> check at the end of updating my file whether I screwed up and created
> imbalance, but sometimes I don't notice... I'd like it to just yell at me
> immediately when I mess up a transaction and create an imbalance, so I don't
> have to do archaeology later when I notice it.... I'll never get these 2
> hours back.

A long long time ago, GnuCash would never let you create an imbalanced
transaction.  If there was an imbalance and you tried to leave the
transaction, for any reason, it would pop up a modal dialog and tell
you.  I don't recall if it offered any solutions, other than "OK".

Then someone had the bright idea to automatically balance it for you.
And that became "the way".  However I believe they also ripped out the
old dialog, which means I don't think there is an easy way to set up an
option to choose which way to go.

For the record, I would also prefer the dialog.

FWIW, there are also times when an auto-generated transaction is
imbalanced.  I've seen it happen with some SX generated data, where the
P+I != PMT -- off by $0.01 -- which gets put into Imbalance.  I'm not
sure what the correct behavior is there.

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-derek

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