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

[Stan Brown]

Not preferences, but File » Properties » Accounts » Day Threshold for
read-only transactions.

Stan Brown
Tehachapi, CA, USA
https://BrownMath.com

On 2022-12-27 13:58, David H wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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 <https://BrownMath.com>
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