[GNC] Auto-delete imbalance with no value in split

[D.]

I have used empty splits to anchor a transaction for a stock spin off to the originating company. Say IBM spun off shares for AAPL. Without an empty split for IBM in the new AAPL shares-in transaction, there's no way to see the connection between the original company and the new one. I wouldn't be happy to lose that link. 


-------- Original Message --------
From: Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net>
Sent: Fri Apr 10 21:49:02 GMT+05:30 2020
To: Gnucash Users <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Subject: Re: [GNC] Auto-delete imbalance with no value in split

Until and unless some facility is provided to make general notes, this could be problematic if it applied to all accounts. Even then, some might specifically use the Imbalance or Orphan accounts for that purpose. Such a change would have to be communicated well to users. You wouldn’t want to wipe out notation-only transactions by deleting all splits without a value.

Regards,
Adrien

> On Apr 10, 2020 w15d101, at 11:14 AM, Stephen M. Butler <kg7je at arrl.net> wrote:
> 
> And yes, it would be nice that a "zero" split line would automatically
> be removed when the enter key is hit.  This would be helpful when the
> enter key is hit in the middle of making changes.  Keep on fixing the
> remaining lines and let that Imbalance line go back to zero and have it
> automatically disappear at the next enter key.
> 
> Would be helpful also in those cases where a transaction sits for hours
> (days, weeks, months) with an unnoticed Imbalance split and you finally
> come back to fix it.
> 
> Might be helpful just in general for any line that goes to a zero value
> (but I think some folks use those lines for other purposes so they might
> object).  I would be fine if it only happened for the "Orphan" and
> "Imbalance" lines going to zero.


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