[GNC] [GNC-dev] calculate deposit before withdrawal

[Ed]

   Thanks, David - yes, the duplicate-and-delete works well and takes only
   a few seconds.
   FWIW, I have used Microsoft Money and then Quicken for about the past
   30 years, and I believe this was never a problem for those programs
   (for sure it wasn't with Quicken) - even if transactions were entered
   several days apart, any that had the same date were always presented in
   the register with the withdrawals first and deposits following.
   Also, I should mention that I think the problem I'm experiencing has to
   do mostly (maybe exclusively) with scheduled transactions.  So if I
   schedule a transaction and the template first moves funds from Savings
   to Checking, and then below that has an entry (in the same template)
   moving the funds from Checking to a specific bill payment, and that
   template is to be processed in GnuCash, say 14 days prior to the
   specified date. When it does so, it includes the bill payment on one
   line, and then the Savings-to-Checking txn on the next line - this
   makes it look as though the Checking account goes red (though it goes
   black again on the same day).  I believe that I experimented with
   re-ordering the two txns in the schedule template, but with no effect.
   ED

   David H wrote on 11/26/2022 12:12 PM:

   Hello Ed and welcome to Gnucash.
   If you do get txns out of order I find the simplest way to re-order
   them without putting something in the "num" column is to highlight the
   out of order txn and click duplicate - this will copy it to after you
   other txns for the date and then simply go back and delete the original
   out-of order txn.  Saves re-entering everything. Alternatively if you
   don't mind clutter you can just number them 1,2,3,4,... in the num
   column and they'll sort in that order.
   Cheers David H.
   On Sun, 27 Nov 2022 at 04:10, Ed <[1]ed.nojunkmail at gmail.com> wrote:

        Sorry - and thanks for the helpful correction.
        I've been trying to enter the deposit transaction first (and was
     hoping
        that that would "force" it to be calculated first).  But I'll be
     more
        intentional and ensure that I consistently enter the deposit
     first. If
        the problem persists, I'll post to the user list.  Thank-you for
     your
        patience with a novice.
        Ed
        Derek Atkins wrote on 11/26/2022 9:56 AM:
     Hi,
     first, this should be a user question, not a developer question, and
     should have gone to gnucash-user, not gnucash-devel.
     Having said that -- do you enter the deposit transaction before the
     withdrawal transaction?
     -derek
     On Sat, November 26, 2022 12:42 pm, Ed wrote:
        I'm a new user of GnuCash.
        I frequently post a deposit and a withdrawal in the same amount
     (both
        to the same account) on the same day. It seems that GnuCash
     defaults to
        entering the withdrawal first (when sorted by date), which in
     some
        cases makes it appear as though the account has a negative
     balance.  Am
        I doing something wrong?
        If not, is there some way to program GnuCash so that it
     calculates
        deposits before withdrawals when they occur on the same date?
        Ed
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