Re: [GNC] Transactions in Placeholder

Michael, The OP problem had to do with the importer adding transactions to a placeholder account. So that's why I am discussing that, rather than bringing up the creation of new accounts in the process. I'm not even sure how that applies here; a newly-created account during the import process

Re: [GNC] Transactions in Placeholder

On 2023-04-29 08:17, Michael or Penny Novack wrote: > And an operating system SHOULD allow writing into a write protected > folder whenever the person (or program) doing so has sufficient "rights" Oh dear no. It should let someone with privilege write into the folder _after requiring the user to

Re: [GNC] Search and Replace

On 2023-04-29 08:32, Gyle McCollam wrote: > On your second point, there’s also menu option Transaction-> Cancel> > Transaction to undo any unwanted changes. I was unaware that this existed. The description in the help manual makes it sound just like clicking Delete on an unfinished

Re: [GNC] Search and Replace

John, I see said the blind man as he felt the elephant's trunk or Can't see the forest for the trees. Yes, just like that one! My apologies. However, my buttons aren't as colorful as yours. Thank You, Gyle McCollam Gyle McCollam gmccol...@live.com

Re: [GNC] Search and Replace

> On Apr 29, 2023, at 8:32 AM, Gyle McCollam wrote: > > On my 2nd point, thank you so much, cancel works just fine. I wish there was > a toolbar button so I wouldn't forget it is available, but you can't have > everything. > You mean like this one? Regards, John Ralls

Re: [GNC] Search and Replace

On my 2nd point, thank you so much, cancel works just fine. I wish there was a toolbar button so I wouldn't forget it is available, but you can't have everything. Thank You, Gyle McCollam Gyle McCollam gmccol...@live.com email

Re: [GNC] Search and Replace

What I have found useful is to turn off auto-save and enable the timeout on "save changes on closing". This allows to easily save changes or revert on closing. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription

Re: [GNC] Transactions in Placeholder

On 4/29/2023 10:08 AM, David T. wrote: Michael, I disagree. The importer shouldn't put transacting into an account that is--by definition-- write protected. My counter example would be a write-protected file folder. An operating system that allowed a user to put data into a write-protected

Re: [GNC] Search and Replace

On your second point, there’s also menu option Transaction-> Cancel Transaction to undo any unwanted changes. Cheers. -- From: Gyle McCollam To: "gnucash-user@gnucash.org" Subject: [GNC] Search and Replace Message-ID: Content-Type:

Re: [GNC] Transactions in Placeholder

Michael, I disagree. The importer shouldn't put transacting into an account that is--by definition-- write protected. My counter example would be a write-protected file folder. An operating system that allowed a user to put data into a write-protected folder would come in for serious

Re: [GNC] Transactions in Placeholder

On 4/29/2023 2:39 AM, David T. via gnucash-user wrote: There's no hard rule either way. Some users feel strongly about not having any transactions in placeholder accounts, though, and advocate loudly on the list in support of it.  But there's nothing in the software preventing a placeholder

Re: [GNC] Building Gnucash on Fedora 37 - "No package 'glib-2.0' found" error

I'm pretty sure it was a git checkout via `git clone g...@github.com:Gnucash/gnucash.git` . I was sorta pressed for time and ended up just installing the rpm package of gnucash which met my needs for python bindings - see

Re: [GNC] Online quote retrieval not working in Gnu ash 5.0

Interesting ... thanks to this, I just realised my ASX quotes stopped updating as of 31/3.Not sure it was related to any update however. -Original Message- From: gnucash-user On Behalf Of TFT Sent: Thursday, 27 April 2023 3:45 PM To: Gnucash Users Subject: [GNC] Online quote

Re: [GNC] Search and Replace

On Sat, 29 Apr 2023 00:18:56 + Gyle McCollam wrote: > While on the subject of enhancements, It would be helpful to have an > undo and redo function as in Libre Office and many other spreadsheet > programs. I have sometimes accidentally changed a transaction or > eliminated what is in a

Re: [GNC] Transactions in Placeholder

There's no hard rule either way. Some users feel strongly about not having any transactions in placeholder accounts, though, and advocate loudly on the list in support of it.  But there's nothing in the software preventing a placeholder account having transactions in it. That said, the