[GNC] Accounting Period Change issue

[G R Hewitt]

Will you want fries with that?

On Mon, 18 Dec 2023 at 20:13, Kalpesh Patel <kalpesh.patel at usa.net> wrote:

> 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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