[GNC] Accounting Period Change issue

[Kalpesh Patel]

Hmmm!

For 1) see the attached jpg. It describes the situation that no one wants to be in (fyi - I am current practitioner in IT/Systems/Engineering/Software world) ... it's a defect; not a bug.

For 2), if I am spending energy to change it deliberately then I want to see updated values; why else would I be making that change? Definitely not to have a self-exploding time bomb for the future. It is a refresh/redraw issue and is not an error in calculation issue, as it does eventually displays correct values. 

I get feeling that I am going to get flamed...

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael or Penny Novack <stepbystepfarm at comcast.net> 
Sent: Monday, December 18, 2023 8:45 AM
To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: [GNC] Accounting Period Change issue

> In trying to track down a Total (Period) issue, I used Edit -> Preferences -> Accounting Period to change the Start Date and End Date fields to Absolute dates.
> After doing Close of that dialog,
> there appeared to be no change
> in the values in the Total (period) column.
> I expected a change, but maybe it is working as designed.
>
> However, after closing and reopening GnuCash, there then were changes in the values.

Did you want an EXPLANATION of this behavior? (why you had to close, then reopen the application before the change "took effect")

As a retired senior systems analyst who has designed a lot of software, even without examining the code:

1) I am not surprised by this behavior and almost certain about WHY the program behaves this way. Definitely not a "bug".

2) If the user desired behavior were to have this action take place upon closing the dialog (without doing  a manual save/close/reopen) the change in the program to make that happen would be an automated save/close/reopen. That could cause its own user confusion. I'd rather KNOW when each "save" was done (where was I in the work flow)

Michael D Novack


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