[GNC] Auto commit with auto save?

[David T.]

I agree that it would be nice to have some visual cue that a transaction has been edited but not saved; that would be useful. I'm honestly not sure why that hasn't been implemented. 

The app does throw a dialog onscreen when a user tries to save with an open transaction. Unfortunately, the message is generic, and a user is forced to look through the open tabs and try to figure out which register holds this transaction. Others have commented on this in the past. 

If I recall correctly, you were having trouble because you have a cron job set up to retrieve quotes at a specified time each day, and this job causes the file to close dirty if there is an open transaction. The problem in this case, is that this cron job doesn't have necessary fault testing and tolerance. I'd suggest working on ensuring that this cron job was properly set up to handle your specific situation. 

⁣David T. ​

On May 6, 2023, 9:02 PM, at 9:02 PM, "David G. Pickett via gnucash-user" <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
>"Don't do that!" does not prevent data loss from human error, which for
>this app behavior is too easy to create and not realize.
>
>If the commit was automatic every time you modified a transaction when
>the new state was valid, then I would not leave the tab in an
>uncommitted state, but that is not how it was devised.  I leave because
>it looks fine.  There is no indication of an uncommitted transaction I
>can see.  In terms of human factors, one might go to another tab for
>information to complete a transaction, so we do not want to prevent the
>user leaving a tab with an uncommitted, possibly invalid transaction. 
>Maybe we should color the tab red while in this state?  Or pop up a
>dialog if it persists a bit too long, or if auto save fires on its
>timer?  But the user may have left, trusting in auto save, so I suggest
>an auto commit if valid on auto save.
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