[GNC] GnuCash and Swedish accounting legislation

[John Ralls]

> On Aug 9, 2020, at 11:04 AM, Stan Brown <the_stan_brown at fastmail.fm> wrote:
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> On 2020-08-09 10:39, Bruce Irving via gnucash-user wrote:
>> The idea of freezing a transaction at some point is an idea that would be appreciated, even by a user like me.  Just before I retired,  There have been times that I accidentally changed a transaction that I didn't intend to. I found that (some of) the commercial programs could allow someone to change transactions - at least by a supervisor.  I retired because 1) I didn't want to learn a system that did not use account numbers and 2) I was confused by having as many as five different accounts with the same name - one in each of the top-level accounts.
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> You probably know this, but just on the off chance that you don't:
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> In the File » Properties dialog, there is a setting "Day threshold for
> read-only transactions." If change the default 0 in that box to a
> number, then transactions more than that many days before today can't be
> edited.
> 
> It would be a lot more useful if we could set a date, in my opinion, but
> it's better than nothing.

Really? ISTM that would be painful to use because you'd have to frequently change the date. I could understand if you wanted to be able to set a period selector, e.g. all transactions before the beginning of the current month are read-only.

Regards,
John Ralls