[GNC] read-only accounts

Derek Atkins derek at ihtfp.com
Thu Dec 2 20:33:51 EST 2021


Hi,

On Thu, December 2, 2021 7:25 pm, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> Hi!
>
> while moving data that I used to keep into spreadsheets into more decent
> books, I found myself looking for a way to mark whole accounts as
> "read-only".
>
> For example: here I have an Income account that records all of the rent
> that came through a given tenant in a given apartment.
> Everything's great, but now I'd really like to make sure I'm not going
> to accidentally edit that data, while still keeping it there and
> visible.  I reconciled the whole book, which helps a bit, but I'd like
> something more… "hard" (for lack of better words right now".")
>
>
> Do anybody have any good suggestion for such use case? :)

Mark the account as a PlaceHolder account and it'll be read-only.

-derek

>
> TIA!
>
> --
> regards,
>                         Mattia Rizzolo
>
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