[GNC] Feature request - prevent a transaction with todays date

[David H]

Stan,

There doesn't seem to be an option/preference to restrict txns entered
using N days before today anymore - version 4.13 of Gnucash on
Windows/MacOS - presumably it's been removed as it wasn't considered very
helpful or age has caught up with me and I'm slowly going blind :-)

Cheers David H.


On Wed, 28 Dec 2022 at 02:44, Stan Brown <the_stan_brown at fastmail.fm> wrote:

> On 2022-12-26 16:27, David Carlson wrote:
> > When entering more than one transaction in a session,  new transactions
> > default to the same date last used, so the existing shortcuts metioned
> in a
> > previous comment often work.
>
> I think that should be "new transactions default to the same date last
> used _in_the_same_register_ in that session." At least that's been my
> experience with 2.6.19, though it could have changed in later GC versions.
>
> > If it happens that you are editing multiple historical transactions,
> they> are likely close together as well.
>
> And there is also the option to run a Ctrl+F query, then make any needed
> edits right in the results register. That's a "live" register like any
> other, not a static read-only view into the database.
>
> > If I had that sort of switch,  I would be forgetting to reset it when
> done.
>
> I agree wholeheartedly. Such an "switch" sounds to me like a classic
> case of bloating the product with a feature of _very_ limited
> applicability.
>
> A related feature I _would_ like to see is the ability to specify a date
> range within which no new transactions could be entered. I would use
> that to prevent myself from unintentionally changing transactions from
> prior years. The existing mechanism, where the only form of date range
> is N days before today, doesn't seem very helpful to me, since I have to
> change the value of N every day.
>
> Stan Brown
> Tehachapi, CA, USA
> https://BrownMath.com
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