[GNC] Can I set accounts to read-only?

Mark at Lorimark mark at lorimarksolutions.com
Tue Nov 21 13:52:01 EST 2023


You can set an account to 'placeholder' after you have transactions in 
it.  This will prevent you from double-click in the accounts view to 
open it, you'll have to right-click to view it's contents.

But, it will also remove it from your pick-lists in the registries.

~mark

On 11/21/23 12:46, David Kirkby wrote:
> I have a few accounts that I will use very occasionally, but not normally.
> Can I set them to read-only, so I just mark them writable when I need to?
> This will avoid transactions accidentally getting put in there. I
> discovered something in the Travel account the other day that should not
> have been there. I will probably use that account once per year, so it
> makes sense to stop things accidentally going into them.
> 
> I  believe setting them to placeholder accounts will achieve the same
> effect, but I'm not sure.
> 


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