[GNC] Removing Orphan components from transaction

[David Carlson]

On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 10:50 AM Adrien Monteleone <
adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:

>
>
> > On Nov 17, 2019 w47d321, at 11:14 PM, Peter West <pbw at pbw.id.au> wrote:
> >
> > I found a transaction in Orphan-AUD. It was a split, and the Orphan
> component was zero. Maybe I had forgotten part of the split, and then
> corrected it, leaving nothing in the Orphan-AUD account.
> >
> > I wanted to remove this transaction from Orphan-AUD. As I recall, I
> tried to remove the Orphan line from the copy of the transaction under the
> Orphan-AUD tab. Uh-uh. Something about the anchoring to another account.
>
> You can’t delete a split that is for the account in the current register.
> (that is what anchors it to that account)
>

Yes, you can delete an anchor split and that is what I noted in my previous
message.  I called it the 'home' account split.


> >
> > So I went to the parent account (an asset account) of the split, and
> tried to delete the null Orphan-AUD line. That seemed to work.
>
> Not sure what you mean by ‘parent account’ of the split. Which split?
> You’re speaking of the Orphan-AUD split and it only has Expenses as a
> parent.
>
> >
> > Back to the Orphan-AUD tab, delete this transaction as a whole. Presto!
> All gone.
>
> The transaction should have been removed from the Orphan-AUD register
> automatically when you removed the Orphan-AUD split from another register.
> That is normal. But if it hadn’t yet disappeared (because the register view
> didn’t refresh for some reason), and then you deleted the transaction from
> the Orphan-AUD register, then yes - you removed the entire transaction.
> There should have been no need to do so.
>
> Peter may have navigated to another register view without first committing
an edit, but I shouldn't speak for him.


> >
> > Bad mistake.  Deleting transaction was good to its word, and deleted the
> whole transaction. I lost the only references I had to the original
> transaction (from August).
> >
> > What is the correct method?
>
> 1. When you want to remove a split from a transaction do not try to do so
> from the same register as the split. If that is how you happened to find
> the transaction, right-click on one of the other splits and choose ‘jump’
> which will open the transaction in that other split’s account register.
>
> 2. Go back to the original register and click on a different transaction.
> (or close it entirely)
>
> 3. From the ‘jumped to’ register, either tab through and zero out the
> desired split or right-click the split and choose ‘Delete split’.
>
> 4. Observe that only that split is removed.
>
> 5. Re-open (or go back to the original account register) and observe that
> the transaction no longer shows up there since you removed the split
> anchoring it there. (unless there was more than one such split assigned to
> that account, in which case of course, it will still be there with that
> remaining split)
>
> Good Advice!


> Regards,
> Adrien
>
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