[GNC] read-only accounts
Adrien Monteleone
adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net
Fri Dec 3 13:24:42 EST 2021
I forgot to mention that if it errors out due to a read-only condition,
but *still* changes the data, that would be a bug. Either it is
read-only, or it is not.
Regards,
Adrien
On 12/3/21 8:37 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:
> 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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