On Tue, May 03, 2022 at 10:25:49AM -0400, Michael or Penny Novack wrote: > On 5/3/2022 9:47 AM, Chris Green wrote: > > Is it possible to change the account in the Transfer column of a > > transaction? If so how should one do it? > > > > If I click on the entry it's highlighted and an up arrow ^ appears in > > the Transfer column but no list of alternative accounts. Should I get > > the list there? I'm sure I sometimes have got the list but there > > seems no rhyme nor reason why it sometimes appears and sometimes > > doesn't. > > > > I'm running GnuCash 4.4 on xubuntu Linux. > > > I will be using the formal terms "debit" and "credit" as the supposedly more > user friendly terms vary with the sort of account and this matter does not > depend on that. > > You cannot change the account associated with a debit or a credit of a > transaction while IN that account. Since there will always be at least two > accounts associated with a transaction it will always be possible to go to > that transaction in another account and you would then have a list to change > THIS account there. Do it that way until .... > > If you have become familiar with entering "splits" you will have learned to > enter transactions in the "journal view". That's how we all entered > transactions in the old days of pen and ink on paper bookkeeping. We then > had to manually post these entries to the ledger accounts. Gnucash does the > "posting" automatically when you enter transactions this way. If you are > viewing the transaction in "journal view" you CAN change any of the accounts > using the drop down list, even the one you were in when you entered journal > view (split) > The whole problem is that I don't get the drop down list! I get the up-arrow or down-arrow that indicates it's going to appear, but it doesn't appear. As I said it does *sometimes* appear but I can't understand why it does appear sometimes but mostly it doesn't appear.
I suspect this is actually a bug, I think I reported it quite a long time ago as an inability to select the Transfer account at all when entering a transaction. This is basically the same problem except that I'm wanting to change the Transfer account. -- Chris Green _______________________________________________ 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.