Gnucash and root-account in MySQL

2009-08-07 Thread Marcus Wolschon
Hello, I had a closer look at the data Gnucash 2.3.3 was writing into it`s MySQL-tables and I noticed that the entry for the root-account on the "accounts"-table is missing. All the accounts directly below root have the same parent_guid but there is no entry for that guid in the "accounts"-table.

Re: when starting Gnucash, "Present" column remains zero until you open the account, then gets the correct value

2009-08-07 Thread Phil Longstaff
Sigh. Another problem caused because the splits are not loaded when opening an SQL file. Phil On August 7, 2009 04:26:14 pm Gabriel Ferrise wrote: > As Derek suggested, I filed the bug in bugzilla > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=591098 > > > Hi, Im using gmucash version 2.3.2 and no

Re: transaction corrections

2009-08-07 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
Gnucash is a usable program. It however lacks something *very basic and important.* Any professional accounting program must not allow the editing or deleting of entered transactions. All corrections must be made by an additional correction entry which will refer to the original erroneous

Re: transaction corrections

2009-08-07 Thread John Ralls
On Aug 7, 2009, at 8:15 AM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: From: Jay Seidler To: gnucash-devel@gnucash.org Sent: Friday, August 7, 2009 5:55:23 AM Subject: transaction corrections Gnucash is a usable program. It however lacks something *very basic and important.* Any professional accounting p

Re: transaction corrections

2009-08-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
> > From: Jay Seidler > > To: gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > > Sent: Friday, August 7, 2009 5:55:23 AM > > Subject: transaction corrections > > > > Gnucash is a usable program. It however lacks something *very > > basic and important.* Any professional accounting program must > > not allow the edi

Re: transaction corrections

2009-08-07 Thread Phil Longstaff
True. However, gnucash is not, and does not pretend to be, a professional accounting program. I believe it started as a personal accounting program and expanded to business use. I would not be averse to having a "professional" mode which prevented transactions from being edited or deleted (ot

transaction corrections

2009-08-07 Thread Jay Seidler
Gnucash is a usable program. It however lacks something *very basic and important.* Any professional accounting program must not allow the editing or deleting of entered transactions. All corrections must be made by an additional correction entry which will refer to the original erroneous t