[GNC] unvoid

[John Ralls]

Patrick left out a crucial detail in his summary sentence: They were unable to unvoid voided transactions when there was no void reason.

The cause was that the transaction unvoid function checked the void reason and if it was empty decided that the transaction wasn’t voided and silently bailed. I changed that to check the void date-time that is always set. Pushed to git just now so it will be in tomorrow’s nightlies and GnuCash 5.17.

Regards,
John Ralls


> On Jul 18, 2026, at 08:58, Gyle McCollam <gmccollam at live.com> wrote:
> 
> I will add that the delete option is greyed out once the transaction is voided, so that looks to be by design rather than a "bug".
> 
> 
> Thank You,
> 
> Gyle McCollam
> 
> Gyle McCollam
> 
> gmccollam at live.com<mailto:gmccollam at gyleshomes.com>           email
> 
> ________________________________
> From: gnucash-user <gnucash-user-bounces+gylemc=gmail.com at gnucash.org> on behalf of Gyle McCollam <gmccollam at live.com>
> Sent: Saturday, July 18, 2026 11:49 AM
> To: gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org <gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org>; settlersoman at gmail.com <settlersoman at gmail.com>; Ram Vilas Gupta <rvgjlr1949 at gmail.com>; Patrick James <patrickjames14 at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: [GNC] Fw: unvoid
> 
> I am able to void and unvoid transactions without issue.  I'm using XML with Gnucash 5.15 on Windows 11.  I will say that it flaged me at first because the transaction was reconciled, but when I unreconciled it worked without issue.
> 
> 
> Thank You,
> 
> Gyle McCollam
> 
> Gyle McCollam
> 
> gmccollam at live.com<mailto:gmccollam at gyleshomes.com>           email
> 
> ________________________________
> From: gnucash-user <gnucash-user-bounces+gylemc=gmail.com at gnucash.org> on behalf of Patrick James via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> Sent: Saturday, July 18, 2026 4:57 AM
> To: gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org <gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org>; settlersoman at gmail.com <settlersoman at gmail.com>; Ram Vilas Gupta <rvgjlr1949 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [GNC] Fw: unvoid
> 
> For Mariusz & Ram Vilas Gupta
> & others who are unable to Unvoid or delete voided transactions.
> 
> I have pinned this down and reported the bug here:
> 
> https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=799791
> 
> It might be only the XML database is affected, but I am able to replicate the problem consistently.
> 
> 
>> 
>> Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2026 14:41:53 +0200
>> From: Mariusz <settlersoman at gmail.com>
>> To: edodd at billiau.net
>> Subject: unvoid
>> 
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I've seen your message here:
>> 
>> https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2025-December/118620.html
>> 
>> I've faced the same issue. I didn't have it on Linux and database
>> storage usage until 5.14 (I use gnucash for at least 10 years). When I
>> moved to MacOS on 5.14 and xml - I'm not able to unvoid. I click and
>> nothing happens. Yesterday I upgraded to 5.15 with the same issue.
>> 
>> 
>> regards
>> 
>> Mariusz
>> _______________________________________________
>> gnucash-user mailing list
>> gnucash-user at gnucash.org
>> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe:
>> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user
> _______________________________________________
> gnucash-user mailing list
> gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe:
> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user
> -----
> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
> _______________________________________________
> gnucash-user mailing list
> gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe:
> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user
> -----
> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
> _______________________________________________
> gnucash-user mailing list
> gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe:
> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user
> -----
> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.