[GNC] Reconcile also opens Interest Payment box?

[Jean Laroche]

If you open a bug about it, I can try to fix that (move things to the 
right place etc). At the very least, the global option should be either 
fixed, or removed.
Jean

On 7/10/20 3:35 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
> For consistency, that very wide button should probably either be changed 
> to a checkbox, then moved or copied to the Account Edit page as a 
> per-account preference. (it could remain in the dialog for 
> discoverability I suppose, which is what I mean by 'copied') One could 
> change it in either place, but ideally, it should be in one place.
> 
> I'm not sure a global preference (especially one that is ignored) is 
> necessary if each account can be set separately.
> 
> Regards,
> Adrien
> 
> On 7/10/20 5:16 PM, lj wrote:
>> I figured it out. Duh.
>>
>> There is a button on the Reconcile dialog that says "Enter Interest 
>> Payment". In addition to letting you enter an interest payment, 
>> clicking that button sets a per-account flag to always prompt for an 
>> interest payment when you reconcile.
>>
>> On the Interest Payment dialog, there is a button "No Auto Interest 
>> Payments for this Account". (It's very wide, and I didn't realize it 
>> was a button.) That cancels the dialog, and also clears the 
>> per-account flag so GnuCash will no longer prompt for interest payment 
>> when you reconcile.
>>
>> And the global preference Register, Reconciling, Automatic interest 
>> transfer? It does NOTHING at all. It sets a preference flag which is 
>> never used. It's supposed to be the default for accounts without the 
>> auto-interest-payment flag, but it doesn't work. Note that in 
>> libgnucash/engine/Account.cpp, the function 
>> xaccAccountGetAutoInterestXfer() ignores its default_value argument.
> 
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