[GNC] Account name with ':' in it

[Fred Tydeman]

Bug 798949 has been filed.
I changed the Namespace by editing the uncompressed XML file.

On Wed, Jun 7, 2023 at 5:33 PM john <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

>
>
> > On Jun 7, 2023, at 07:50, Fred Tydeman <tydeman.fred at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > When I started Gnucash today (after doing a QIF import yesterday),
> > I am getting a popup:
> > The separator character ":" is used in one or more account names.
> > This will result in unexpected behaviour.  Either change the account
> names
> >  or choose another separator character.
> >  Below you will find the list of invalid account names:
> >  Tybor:TbLLC
> >
> > In looking at the COA, I see that Tybor:TbLLC was added by Gnucash as
> > a Trading account (which I assume resulted from the QIF import).
> >
> > In using the Security Editor, I see a Namespace of Tybor:TbLLC
> >
> > I assume that the Trading account name came from the Namespace name.
> >
> > If ":" is a problem, then it seems to me that I should not be allowed to
> > create
> > a Namespace name with a ":" in it.
> >
> > Also, there appears to be no way to edit a security Namespace name.
>
> Please file a bug about the namespace and trading accounts.
>
> There's no separate control for editing namespaces so you have to create a
> new one and use it for all of the commodities  that used the old one. I
> think that once there are no commodities using a namespace it will
> disappear when you start a new session.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
>