[GNC] Changing registers in the middle of entering or editing a transaction

[David Carlson]

Over the years I have filed more than one bug report looking at various
aspects of the issue of not being able to ascertain which pending edit was
preventing the manual file save action, but today I was only able to find
this one:  https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=686051.  There should
be another one where I enumerate possible work-arounds to find the lost
pending edit(s)
I recall one suggestion was to improve the warning by listing a link to the
pending edit transaction in the warning.

On Wed, Dec 28, 2022 at 10:20 AM R Losey <rlosey at gmail.com> wrote:

> There are times when I want to check the accounts list in the middle of
> entering a transaction, and I have occasionally (to verify amounts) wanted
> to check with another register. I'd be okay with the change below as long
> as there were three, not two choices: 1) Save changes 2) Discard the
> transaction in progress 3) Continue with the register change.
>
> As an example of changing: when dealing with investments via brokerage
> accounts, there is typically a "sweep" fund that holds the cash in the
> account. When a purchase is made, the funds are normally taken out of the
> sweep account within a few business days. However, I will usually go ahead
> and enter the sweep transaction early, and I will swap to the register with
> the purchase transaction to make sure I enter the amount properly.
>
> On Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 7:05 PM William Prescott <will at theprescotts.com>
> wrote:
>
> > That highlights a point about Gnucash function that I find annoying. It
> > will let you switch registers in the middle of editing a transaction,
> > leaving the changed transaction uncommitted.
> >
> > Would it be an improvement to have the program prevent that. When you try
> > to switch registers with an open transaction it could ask you if you want
> > to save changes or cancel the editing of the transaction.
> >
> > I can't think of a situation where I would like to pause in the middle of
> > entering or editing a transaction in one register and go to another
> > register.
> >
> > Sometimes when I try to quit the App, it tells me I have an open
> > transaction somewhere and it is always because I never committed some
> > transaction. And at that point I don't remember what transaction nor if I
> > wanted to save the changes.
> >
> > Will
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David Carlson