Closing Book causes Imbalance????

Geert Janssens geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be
Wed Feb 21 13:09:02 EST 2018


Yes, this has been requested before and I agree this would make more sense.

Related bug reports with different proposals for a solution:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105803
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164317
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=402289

Geert


Op woensdag 21 februari 2018 15:42:07 CET schreef 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.
> 
> > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
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> 
> -derek






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