Re: [GNC] Transactions in Placeholder

2023-05-02 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Ha - that's this very thread! Sorry for the noise. Regards, Adrien On 5/2/23 7:45 AM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: Someone reported that the CSV importer was adding to placeholders as well. Perhaps these issues are related to the same code block. Regards, Adrien On 5/1/23 2:06 PM, David T. via

Re: [GNC] Transactions in Placeholder

2023-05-02 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Someone reported that the CSV importer was adding to placeholders as well. Perhaps these issues are related to the same code block. Regards, Adrien On 5/1/23 2:06 PM, David T. via gnucash-user wrote: I'm going to follow up my own message to note that I have now found that GnuCash 4.13 under

Re: [GNC] Transactions in Placeholder

2023-05-01 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
I'm going to follow up my own message to note that I have now found that GnuCash 4.13 under Windows 10 will add transactions to a placeholder account even while displaying a message stating that it cannot write transactions to placeholder accounts! I've just had GnuCash do this twice, when it

Re: [GNC] Transactions in Placeholder

2023-04-29 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
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

2023-04-29 Thread Stan Brown
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] Transactions in Placeholder

2023-04-29 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
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] Transactions in Placeholder

2023-04-29 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
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

2023-04-29 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
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] Transactions in Placeholder

2023-04-29 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
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

[GNC] Transactions in Placeholder

2023-04-28 Thread Fred Tydeman
My understanding is Placeholder accounts should have zero transactions in them. However, when I Import a QIF file, sometimes I end up with transactions in a Placeholder account. It would be nice if the importer would give a warning about putting transactions into a Placeholder account. That