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Honey Butter Cinnamon Sweet Potato Fries, please … two of them. From: G R Hewitt <hewit...@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, December 18, 2023 3:32 PM To: Kalpesh Patel <kalpesh.pa...@usa.net>; GnuCash User List <gnucash-user@gnucash.org> Subject: Re: [GNC] Accounting Period Change issue Will you want fries with that? On Mon, 18 Dec 2023 at 20:13, Kalpesh Patel <kalpesh.pa...@usa.net <mailto:kalpesh.pa...@usa.net> > wrote: Hmmm! For 1) see the attached jpg. It describes the situation that no one wants to be in (fyi - I am current practitioner in IT/Systems/Engineering/Software world) ... it's a defect; not a bug. For 2), if I am spending energy to change it deliberately then I want to see updated values; why else would I be making that change? Definitely not to have a self-exploding time bomb for the future. It is a refresh/redraw issue and is not an error in calculation issue, as it does eventually displays correct values. I get feeling that I am going to get flamed... -----Original Message----- From: Michael or Penny Novack <stepbystepf...@comcast.net <mailto:stepbystepf...@comcast.net> > Sent: Monday, December 18, 2023 8:45 AM To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org <mailto:gnucash-user@gnucash.org> Subject: Re: [GNC] Accounting Period Change issue > In trying to track down a Total (Period) issue, I used Edit -> Preferences -> > Accounting Period to change the Start Date and End Date fields to Absolute > dates. > After doing Close of that dialog, > there appeared to be no change > in the values in the Total (period) column. > I expected a change, but maybe it is working as designed. > > However, after closing and reopening GnuCash, there then were changes in the > values. Did you want an EXPLANATION of this behavior? (why you had to close, then reopen the application before the change "took effect") As a retired senior systems analyst who has designed a lot of software, even without examining the code: 1) I am not surprised by this behavior and almost certain about WHY the program behaves this way. Definitely not a "bug". 2) If the user desired behavior were to have this action take place upon closing the dialog (without doing a manual save/close/reopen) the change in the program to make that happen would be an automated save/close/reopen. That could cause its own user confusion. I'd rather KNOW when each "save" was done (where was I in the work flow) Michael D Novack _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org <mailto:gnucash-user@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@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.
