[GNC] Change account in Transfer column - how?

[Michael or Penny Novack]

On 5/3/2022 9:47 AM, Chris Green wrote:
> Is it possible to change the account in the Transfer column of a
> transaction?  If so how should one do it?
>
> If I click on the entry it's highlighted and an up arrow ^ appears in
> the Transfer column but no list of alternative accounts.  Should I get
> the list there?  I'm sure I sometimes have got the list but there
> seems no rhyme nor reason why it sometimes appears and sometimes
> doesn't.
>
> I'm running GnuCash 4.4 on xubuntu Linux.
>
I will be using the formal terms "debit" and "credit" as the supposedly 
more user friendly terms vary with the sort of account and this matter 
does not depend on that.

You cannot change the account associated with a debit or a credit of a 
transaction while IN that account. Since there will always be at least 
two accounts associated with a transaction it will always be possible to 
go to that transaction in another account and you would then have a list 
to change THIS account there.  Do it that way until ....

If you have become familiar with entering "splits" you will have learned 
to enter transactions in the "journal view". That's how we all entered 
transactions in the old days of pen and ink on paper bookkeeping. We 
then had to manually post these entries to the ledger accounts. Gnucash 
does the "posting" automatically when you enter transactions this way. 
If you are viewing the transaction in "journal view" you CAN change any 
of the accounts using the drop down list, even the one you were in when 
you entered journal view (split)

Michael D Novack



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