On Dec 28, 2007 9:08 AM, Tim Wunder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > * It might also be a good idea for the user to be presented with a review > > > dialog with suitable warning about book closing. Something like "This > > > will create a zeroing transaction for all your income and expense > > > accounts as of $DATE_SELECTED" with the obligatory OK/CANCEL buttons. > > > > Sure, this is easy enough to do, but it's pretty annoying. Why would you > > need this? It's pretty easy to undo; you just have to delete two > > transactions. > > Also, it's not going to do anything until you click that first OK, and > > the operation isn't dangerous. It's not like it's going to delete > > any transactions or do anything that isn't immediately recoverable. So > > I'm not sure the operation warrants a warning dialog like that. > > > > I'm thinking from the user's perspective. Yes, it's not dangerous and is > easily undone and may be slightly annoying to some, but, any time a user > performs a large operation on their data file, it'd be nice to be sure they > really want to do it.
alternatively, maybe you could display a "review created transactions" tab showing the newly-created transactions like the "since last run" dialog of scheduled transactions can create. This makes it even easier to back out and it's consistent with another part of the software. [disclaimer: I'm just reading the discussion -- I haven't tried the new feature.] _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
