[GNC] read-only accounts

[Derek Atkins]

HI,

On Fri, December 3, 2021 9:17 am, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 02, 2021 at 08:33:51PM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> Mark the account as a PlaceHolder account and it'll be read-only.
>
> Oh, that's a nice trick I didn't think of!  Thanks!
>
> Howver, it seems to me that it doesn't fully lock down the account.  If
> I tried to change a split belonging to that account from "the other
> side", it first nags me about changing a reconciled split, then it
> errors out saying that "the account doesn't allow transactions" (because
> it's read-only), but it then still proceeds to record the changes,
> regardless of the warning.
> Is that the expected behaviour?

Yes.

GnuCash told you "don't do that" but you did it anyways.

-derek

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