Wm, I don’t think there is a bug. I think this is user error.
It was the same-name issue that caused my confusion on where in the tree I was when assigning the parent. I was accidentally trying to set the account as its own parent, which triggers the error message since that is an impossibility. Certainly, I have many accounts with duplicate names, though they lie in different places in the tree. Since the OP never replied back, I don’t know if that was their issue or not. Anyhow, they solved the problem by restoring an earlier file and proceeding again. Regards, Adrien > On Mar 1, 2018, at 5:25 PM, Wm via gnucash-user <gnucash-user@gnucash.org> > wrote: > > On 27/02/2018 19:59, Adrien Monteleone wrote: >> Playing around, I managed to trigger the error message. >> I selected an account and then clicked the edit button. I then tried to >> re-assign it to itself as the parent. Of course, this is impossible. > > gnc actually does some well thought out movements if you delete an account > instead of moving it, if you want to experiment you create a new account, > delete the old one and see if it does what you expect. > >> Not sure if that’s what happened in your case. And for me, I recall now >> naming did play a part. Because I had some accounts very similarly named and >> I wasn’t paying close enough attention to the tree, I was attempting to >> place an account under itself rather than a different account. > > If you can repeat that it is probably worth while doing a bug file. > > placing accounts with the same name in a tree works very well in gnc as a rule > > -- > Wm > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > 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@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
