On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Derek Atkins <[email protected]> wrote:
> Donald Allen <[email protected]> writes: > > > Running 2.4.4 on a Slackware 13.1 64-bit system, I just edited an > (expense) > > account from the COA and changed its name. I then went to an account > > register and tried to change a split to that account using its new name. > The > > new name was not found/recognized, but the old name was. I saved the > (xml) > > file and tried again. Same behavior. So I quit and restarted gnucash and > now > > I was able to use the new account name to change the split. I could be > > hallucinating, but I'm almost certain that in prior versions of Gnucash, > > account name changes took place globally and immediately. This feels to > me > > like a bug. > > Did you try closing and re-opening the Account Register? > No, and now I can't reproduce the problem. I think I had a register open for the account whose name I changed, but I just tried that, and it was handled correctly (the register's tab reflected the new name immediately and the new account name was available to splits). > > > Comments? > > I agree that the change *should* be seen immediately. > And that's what I'm seeing now. I apparently hit a case that isn't handled correctly. I'll play with it a bit more to try to reproduce it. /Don > > > /Don > > -derek > > -- > Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory > Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) > URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH > [email protected] PGP key available > _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
