[GNC] followup about 'how to remember an interest account'

[Adrien Monteleone]

Ah, sorry I wasn’t reading carefully enough.

So both accounts are defaulting to the Savings account?

I just did my own test with a bank account and reconciling. While it did remember I had entered interest in the previous reconcile and brought up the window automatically, it defaulted to the same account for the ‘From’ panel when it should have defaulted to the one used last. And for the record, on the first reconcile, I chose an income account. So it isn’t like it wasn’t remembering it because of an errant expense account selection.

I’d file a bug report for the inconsistent behavior.

Regards,
Adrien

> On Aug 4, 2019, at 12:17 PM, Paul Kinzelman <paul at kinzelman.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the tip about not changing the subject.
> 
> As I said below, both the windows, "Payment From"
> (which should highlight the interest account I used last month)
> and the "Reconcile Account" (the account I'm reconciling - the savings account)
> highlight the same account that I'm trying to reconcile.
> I always have to manually highlight the Income Interest account.
> 
> That highlight is correct for the "Reconcile Account", but it's not
> the correct account for the "Payment From" window. That one
> should be the interest account, which should be the same one
> that I used the last month.
> 
> On 8/4/2019 10:00 AM, gnucash-user-request at gnucash.org wrote:
>> Here is info from the Help Manual Chapter 5:
>> 
>> "The Payment From pane contains a list of accounts where you can select the source account.
>> 
>> 	Note
>> If the payment is for a credit or loan account then usually the payment would be from an Expense account. If the payment is for a checking or savings account then usually this would be from an Income account.?
>> 
>> What is the incorrect account that the window is preselecting? Is it an income account?
>> 
>> Savings accounts usually earn interest, while credit accounts usually cost you interest.
>> 
>> -----
>> 
>> Also, please when sending a ?follow up? like you did here, do not change the subject line, just reply to the same thread. Otherwise, you end up with two threads neither of which have all the info in them. Someone might not see one or the other when replying.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Adrien
>> 
>>> On Aug 4, 2019, at 9:40 AM, Paul Kinzelman<paul at kinzelman.com>  wrote:
>>> 
>>> Sorry, I should have included this more specific info...
>>> 
>>> In the 'Payment Information" window,
>>> the "Payment From" and "Reconcile Account" are always
>>> initially the same account which is not very useful.
>>> 
>>> The previous month I reconciled the same account and
>>> under "Payment From"  I selected the interest account, but
>>> the following month it goes back to initially selecting the
>>> same account as is in the "Reconcile Account" window
>>> and I have to select the desired account again every month.
> 
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