Hi Michael,
On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 10:58 PM, Michael Richardson <[email protected]>
wrote:
>
> I'm still at a loss to understand what the value of draft/post transactions
> is. Maybe it's still a work in progress.
>
Heh. I'm not sure one is correlated to the other :-) . So, lets start with
your situation: how many people are there in your business and how many are
there in your "accounting department"?
If the answer is - as I suspect - "I'm alone" (like me, in most of my
businesses), then Draft versus Posted transactions are not for you. Draft
and Posted transactions implement a principle which is called "separation
of duties". It ensures - in companies of size "2+" - that no single person
can cook the books (usually heavily associated with fraud).
Perhaps I've reported this already: when I go to delete draft transactions
>
Hmm. No, I didn't notice anything like that. To be honest, we do use draft
transactions and we do sometimes duplicate them, but I can't remember
running into your problems. I've logged them on SourceForge:
https://sourceforge.net/p/ledger-smb/bugs/1391/
> that turned out to the duplicates (usually because I couldn't find them
> having not posted them properly, and then I duplicated them while
> reconciling. It would be nice if the reconcilliation page would show
> me draft transactions which have not been approved, not of course, letting
> me
> select them until they are posted), I am getting:
>
> 23503:ERROR: update or delete on table "acc_trans" violates foreign key
> constraint "business_unit_ac_entry_id_fkey" on table "business_unit_ac"
> DETAIL: Key (entry_id)=(24190) is still referenced from table
> "business_unit_ac". CONTEXT: SQL statement "DELETE FROM acc_trans WHERE
> trans_id = in_id" PL/pgSQL function "draft_delete" line 9 at SQL statement
> at LedgerSMB.pm line 782.
>
> dbversion: 1.4.12, company: sswbooks
>
>
> So, I can't delete them. What is this business_unit_ac, and why is it
> referencing a draft transaction?
>
It's used to attach business reporting units to the transactions -- e.g.
projects, departments, ...
> So, can I edit a draft transaction, because, you know, it was not approved
> because it was in error? Nope, none of the edits seem to save when I "Save
> Draft".
>
That's a bug too (registered it under
https://sourceforge.net/p/ledger-smb/bugs/1392/). No, the (draft)
transactions aren't a work in progress, but badly suffering from the fact
that nobody started drawing state transition diagrams and discussing the
required state changes before writing the code that's behind it. (It'd be
very unfortunate if all you could do with a not-acceptable draft
transaction is to delete it.)
(The number of blank rows for new info do double each time though)
>
> Am I simply mis-understanding the point of draft transactions? Are these
> bugs?
> Are these bugs because those transactions were entered with 1.3.x, and I've
> upgraded?
>
I wouldn't expect these to be bugs because you entered in 1.3 and upgraded.
I'm expecting (although I haven't verified) the same problems with
1.4-created transactions.
--
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Erik.
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