[GNC] New accounts don't show up in GC 5.8 under Flathub

[John Ralls]

I’ve added instructions for that to the wiki page.

Regards,
John Ralls


> On Jul 16, 2024, at 06:48, rsbrux <rsbrux at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Thanks, but I am a bit unsure about the instructions.
> 1. It says they won’t work if I have the flathub repository configured, which I do.
> 2. Before doing this, I would like to know how to get back to the stable version.
> Many thanks for your help!
> 
>> On 15 Jul 2024, at 21:27, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
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>>>> On Jul 15, 2024, at 10:07 AM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
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>>>>> On Jul 15, 2024, at 06:48, rsbrux via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
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>>>> When I create a new account in GC (v5.8 running in Flathub under Ubuntu Studio 22.04 LTS), it doesn't show up in the account tree.
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>>>> Clicking "View - Refresh" does not help.  The ony way I have found to get the new account to show up is to use "Edit - Find Account".
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>>>> The new account then shows up in the search results, but with a checkmark in the column "Not Used".
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>>>> When I double-click on the entry in the search results list,  the new account appears in the account tree.
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>>> I think that has to do with the fix for bug 799347. There are some other side effects. Bob Fewell and I are working on it, the discussion is at the bottom of https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=799370 <fhttps://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=799370>
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>> I confirmed that it was a side effect of the bug 799347 fix. I've now fixed that differently along with the rest of bug 799370. Please try tomorrow's nightly build, see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Flatpak#Nightly_Test_Versions_at_gnucash.org for installation instructions.
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>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
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