[GNC] Problem with colons in account names

[Greg Feneis]

I think having colons in names of things interferes with GnuCash's
auto-fill/lookup scheme when filling certain fields in a transaction.  The
colon is a special character that accepts an autofill suggestion and lists
a sub selection list based on what the user types.  EG, account name colon
sub account name, and so on. Perhaps the same name suggestion/lookup
function is used for security names, so it triggers an error about account
names that should now be more generalized?

However, I don't know why you still get the error message if you've edited
all colons out.

Kind regards, Greg Feneis
(Pixel 3)


On Wed, Jan 15, 2020, 19:15 <gnucash.dgr9z at ncf.ca> wrote:

> Hi, all.
>
> First, thanks for the continuing excellent work on Gnucash in the Dec.
> release. I know it is a lot of work for the team; it is not thankless work.
>
> I recently set up some stock stocks in the Security editor and created
> corresponding asset accounts as described in the documentation. The symbols
> I was given had colons in them, in the form symbol:currency, such as
> ABCD:USD, so I added these as the symbol and display symbol in the security
> editor.
>
> When I next started Gnucash I was warned that I had account names with
> colons, which is not true, I had securities linked to the accounts, and
> they had the symbols I just described. Regardless, I edited each of the
> securities to remove the trailing :USD parts, but I still see the warnings
> on starting up.
>
> Any suggestions for the correct fix are appreciated.
>
> Ron
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