[GNC] Enhancement suggestion

[David G. Pickett]

 I had sql once but you moved me to xml.  Is there an easy way to go back to SQL?

sql saves uncommitted transactions?

It seems simple enough to have attributes in XML to hold the uncommitted information beside the original information, so you can always save the entire state of the application.

But even without that, having a strong indication on the tab that has pending changes would be much more ergonomic and prevent data loss.

    On Thursday, November 30, 2023 at 04:49:00 PM EST, Glenn Fowler <gfowler1 at outlook.com> wrote:  
 
 I'm assuming you are using XML. In that case the "Save" button does appear from being greyed out and you are indicated on close. Of course this is global and not individual indications that you would like.
The SQL database will save as you go.
I'm in the other camp where I *don't* want to auto-save. This has saved me numerous times where I make a big mistake and it's a simple close without saving and reopening which is a littler easier and quicker than opening a previous backup and renaming files.

On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 2:51 PM David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> wrote:

Have you looked at https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=686051, which was reported 13 years ago?

On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 12:27 PM Glenn Fowler <gfowler1 at outlook.com> wrote:

Hi that is expected behavior with xml, have you tried the database format?

On Thu, Nov 30, 2023, 1:05 PM David G. Pickett via gnucash-user <
gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:

> One problem with gnucash is inadvertently uncommitted modified
> transactions.  It's be nice if the tab lit up if that account included
> such, so I can commit it before wandering off.  If the system is rebooted
> or gnucash is killed for batch stock price updates, these modifications are
> lost, even with timed save configured.
>
> Alternately, find a way to save the modified transaction so when you
> reopen gnucash, you can approve it.
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