[GNC] Check for negative amount in scheduled transaction formula

[Derek Atkins]

Hi Ron,

Ron Stone <ronstone at ncf.ca> writes:

> Thanks for this Derek. I'm on a Mac and only see one copy of fin.scm
> in the application bundle. Seems any edits to this would be lost at
> the next upgrade. Should I be defining another one somewhere under
> ~/Library/Application Support/GnuCash or elsewhere?

Yes, this file will be over-written at the next upgrade.
Creating a new file would require you to get gnucash to load it..

IMHO, you should make the edits to fin.scm now, and then make a patch
and submit to to Bugzilla for inclusion in future versions.

> Ron

-derek

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Derek Atkins" <derek at ihtfp.com>
> To: "gnucash dgr9z" <gnucash.dgr9z at ncf.ca>
> Cc: "Gnucash Users" <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2019 3:16:52 PM
> Subject: Re: [GNC] Check for negative amount in scheduled transaction formula
>
> gnucash.dgr9z at ncf.ca writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is it possible to convert negative numbers to 0 in a formula? something like:
>> a-b < 0 ? 0 : a-b
>>
>> If this needs to be defined as a function someplace, what would it
>> look like, where would it go, and how would it be called from the
>> template?
>
> Look at fin.scm and copy the functions in there.
>
>> Many thanks,
>> Ron 
>
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> -derek

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