Re: Feature request from German list: Disable editing of transactions

2008-02-18 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
my two cents I think it would be wise to collect a precise definition of the formal requirements before making any design decisions. ABSOLUTELY -- determining requirements is the first step in design. How about collecting translations of relevant sections of the actual laws in the wiki, to

Re: Feature request from German list: Disable editing of transactions

2008-02-18 Thread Graham Leggett
Thilo Pfennig wrote: Maybe this is a misunderstanding but what I mean is that if I make an entry into the account bank I think this should still be visible, because only if it wont there would be an error. I think oen should distinct the real bank account and the bank account in GnuCash. Sure

Re: Feature request from German list: Disable editing of transactions

2008-02-17 Thread Bastiaan Veelo
Derek Atkins wrote: Perhaps this should get tied into the book closing clode? When you close the books on a period, all the transactions in that period become uneditable? We DO have the ability to mark a transaction specifically as read-only. It wouldn't be too hard to also mark the txns

Re: Feature request from German list: Disable editing of transactions

2008-02-17 Thread Raffael Luthiger
Bastiaan Veelo wrote: I think it would be wise to collect a precise definition of the formal requirements before making any design decisions. How about collecting translations of relevant sections of the actual laws in the wiki, to find the common denominator? This bit should be provided by

Re: Feature request from German list: Disable editing of transactions

2008-02-16 Thread Christian Stimming
Am Freitag, 15. Februar 2008 23:50 schrieb Graham Leggett: a gnucash mode of operation where the user can not edit older transactions anymore You would definitely want to set this per account, because some accounts in gnucash are authoritative (eg accounts dealing with the issuing of

Re: Feature request from German list: Disable editing of transactions

2008-02-16 Thread Thilo Pfennig
Am Sat, 16 Feb 2008 09:18:03 +0100 schrieb Christian Stimming [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Makes sense, but do you have any ideas how such a per-account setting can be implemented in the GUI? Currently, all per-account settings can be set in the Edit Account dialog. However, a setting Make this an

Re: Feature request from German list: Disable editing of transactions

2008-02-16 Thread Graham Leggett
Christian Stimming wrote: Makes sense, but do you have any ideas how such a per-account setting can be implemented in the GUI? Currently, all per-account settings can be set in the Edit Account dialog. However, a setting Make this an inalterable account shouldn't be allowed to be disabled

Re: Feature request from German list: Disable editing of transactions

2008-02-16 Thread Graham Leggett
Thilo Pfennig wrote: I think from the acounting perspective every entry consists on som field like the date, the accounts, some text,... I also dont think a mix of inalterable accounts and alterable accounts makes much sense because every entry has two ends, so if one end is inalterable the

Re: Feature request from German list: Disable editing of transactions

2008-02-16 Thread Geert Janssens
Hi, I'll just chime in with some of my personal findings and observations. Most of this based on my personal experience and may not be valid for everyone. But I thought different insights might be useful to get a complete picture. On Saturday 16 February 2008, Graham Leggett wrote: An example

Re: Feature request from German list: Disable editing of transactions

2008-02-16 Thread Derek Atkins
Perhaps this should get tied into the book closing clode? When you close the books on a period, all the transactions in that period become uneditable? We DO have the ability to mark a transaction specifically as read-only. It wouldn't be too hard to also mark the txns as read-only as we

Re: Feature request from German list: Disable editing of transactions

2008-02-16 Thread Thilo Pfennig
Am Sat, 16 Feb 2008 16:52:51 +0200 schrieb Graham Leggett [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This isn't true - each entry can have more than two ends in the form of splits, the only requirement is that all the splits add up to zero. ACK, I should rather have written at least two ends. Gnucash isn't the

Re: Feature request from German list: Disable editing of transactions

2008-02-15 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 21:43 +0100, Christian Stimming wrote: Some German business users brought up a feature request that sounds a bit weird for a programmer: They asked for a gnucash mode of operation where the user can not edit older transactions anymore! This is not just important for

Re: Feature request from German list: Disable editing of transactions

2008-02-15 Thread Thilo Pfennig
Am Fri, 15 Feb 2008 21:43:25 +0100 schrieb Christian Stimming [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm still not completely sure how the actual implementation would look like. I think the best way would be not to select the feature but that by selecting some account templates you will get that. If anybody

Re: Feature request from German list: Disable editing of transactions

2008-02-15 Thread Graham Leggett
Christian Stimming wrote: Some German business users brought up a feature request that sounds a bit weird for a programmer: They asked for a gnucash mode of operation where the user can not edit older transactions anymore! Makes perfect sense - wearing my programmer hat on financial systems,