historically, the application would only prevent closing the "last" open window, regardless of what's in it. So yes, you could "lose" your open CoA by opening a register (or report) in another window and then closing the first window. This was, for some reason, considered a feature.
As for remembering the state of the CoA -- it follows the same rule as everything else: once you close a tab, its state is lost. This is true of accounts, reports, any pretty much everything else. And yes, the "View -> New Account Hierarchy" has long been the go-to to remedy closing the CoA. That's why this function has existed for, oh, 20 years. -derek On Wed, June 12, 2024 10:48 am, Geert Janssens wrote: > Op woensdag 12 juni 2024 16:02:05 CEST schreef Stan Brown (using GC 4.14): >> Geert, I can confirm it works that way in 4.14. It doesn't seem like a >> bug to me, because a warning message (attached) appears before closing >> the original GnuCash window. >> > > The warning message is not really about the Account hierarchy page, but > about the > window-about-to-be-closed in general. Depending on how you use windows and > tabs in > gnucash, the window you close can have the account hierarchy tab together > with several > other tabs, so it may not always be obvious you are closing the account > hierarchy. > >> I can indeed reopen the Accounts tab through the View menu, but it opens >> with only the five root-level accounts. I have to click the triangle >> next to each one, and continue going down to expand all the levels of >> accounts. (Because I'm not very accurate with a mouse, this process is >> pretty tedious. However, this time I had saved my .gcm file and just >> copied the saved one over the new one in the "books" folder.) There's >> not any way to do one click or one menu command and expand right down >> through the lowest level, is there? >> > > I haven't found such an option either. Though that would be a nice gui > improvement IMO. > >> Also, it sounds like a design decision that the Accounts tab is not >> supposed to be closable. Out of curiosity, what was the reason? > > I don't know really. That behaviour was there already before I joined the > project. > >> I only >> use the Accounts tab maybe once in every ten times I run GC, and would >> prefer not to have it open automatically -- as long as when it does >> open, its configuration is the same and I don't have to re-expand all >> account levels, set up columns again, and so forth. If memory serves, >> 2.6.19 _did_ preserve the configuration. > > I don't remember. But I agree that would be the right thing to do for > gnucash. > > Regards, > > Geert > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] > 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. > -- Derek Atkins 617-623-3745 [email protected] www.ihtfp.com Computer and Internet Security Consultant _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] 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.
