[GNC] Disabling Lots Manager

[David T.]

Adrien,

I don't know anything about the business features. 

My statement regarding lot activation wasn't clear; you must open the Lot Manager *AND* create lots-- either manually, or by using the scrub feature. 

⁣David T. ​

On Dec 4, 2022, 9:22 PM, at 9:22 PM, Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
>If I understand correctly, the AR & AP accounts use them to track links
>
>between payments and bills/invoices. If you don't use the Business 
>Features, then those two shouldn't be an issue.
>
>I'm not so sure simply using View Lots is how they are activated for an
>
>account. Some accounts have none anyway. (like a cash account)
>
>I would think that some types of accounts use them and others do not. 
>And I didn't think they were optional or that I had the ability to turn
>
>them on or not. But if so, there should certainly be a way to turn them
>off.
>
>The bugs you mention are pretty bad, especially the one about auto 
>re-calculating gains just by viewing them. That's a nightmare. I'd call
>
>it a 'blocking bug' or at least very high severity. (along with the bug
>
>that silently deletes linked sale transactions)
>
>Regards,
>Adrien
>
>On 12/4/22 9:16 AM, David T. via gnucash-user wrote:
>> David,
>> 
>> Lots get activated on an account by account basis; in any given
>account, 
>> you open the View Lots window and either create/assign lots manually
>or 
>> "Scrub" an account to have GnuCash automatically assign your shares
>to 
>> lots. Over the years, I've opted to implement the lots on a
>substantial 
>> number of accounts (but not all of them), and now I'm faced with the 
>> prospect of manually removing those lots from all the accounts that I
>
>> previously used them on. For the record, when I saved the file in
>SQLite 
>> format, the lots table had 1084 rows in it. That's a lot of editing!
>> 
>> Complicating this is the fact that every time I open the lots 
>> viewer-even if just to delete the lots themselves, the program 
>> recalculates the gains transactions (regardless of the reconcile 
>> status). This means I am having to reopen all of my (15 years) 
>> statements and verify that the gains transactions are still accurate.
>
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