I have been watching this and can look at it again when a clear outcome of this discussion is made and hopefully the bug can be updated with what is required.
Bob On 3 May 2017 at 11:44, Geert Janssens <geert.gnuc...@kobaltwit.be> wrote: > On woensdag 3 mei 2017 10:02:44 CEST Geert Janssens wrote: > > >> On May 2, 2017, at 5:11 PM, Wm via gnucash-devel > > >> <gnucash-devel@gnucash.org> wrote: > > > Derek, Geert, and I discussion about this on IRC the other day and both > > > disagree with me. I think Geert is looking into how to restore the > > > account type selector and block type changes between STOCK/FUND and > > > everything else. > > > > I believe you are correct accounts are immutable in formal accounting. In > > formal accounting transactions are immutable as well. Yet we allow users > to > > change transactions if they choose not to adhere to formal accounting > rules. > > In that sense I believe we can also allow users to do the same with > > accounts if they choose to do so, at least within reasonable limits. > > These limits are: > > - the commodity shouldn't be changed. It wouldn't make sense that an > account > > that was tracking USD suddenly starts tracking EUR. The values wouldn't > > match consistently. > > - GnuCash makes certain assumptions about Accounts Receivable and > Accounts > > Payable account types and stores more information in those internally > than > > in other account types. Changing types on these accounts would violate > > these assumptions and/or would lose the added information. To avoid these > > changing account types to/from A/R and A/P should not be allowed. > > - John also mentions the Trading account type. While it's an internal use > > type as well I don't know much about the assumptions gnucash makes on > these > > account types nor whether changing an account to/from such a type would > > affect gnucash' proper functioning or not. Nor can I imagine a use case > > where it would make sense to change to/from a trading account. They are > > generated automatically when needed. > > Oh, and I meant to add I'm not working on this issue (yet). As Robert > Fewell > is the original author of the previous patch I was kind of hoping he would > pick it up :) > > If not, I will handle it. > > Regards, > > Geert > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
