I meant: Do you agree that it would be helpful to display the "booking date" additionally to "value date" in the "list of downloaded transactions" window?
2018-07-26 0:12 GMT+02:00 Di Mang <di.mang.freet...@gmail.com>: > > 2018-07-25 5:10 GMT+02:00 John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us>: > >> >> On Jul 24, 2018, at 2:31 PM, Di Mang <di.mang.freet...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> while testing the functionality for online banking, I have found a few >> places that I think can be improved. See corresponding discussion on >> gnucash-de mailing list: >> https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-de/2018-July/010419.html >> >> >> == (A) handling invalid date range in "get transaction..." == >> >> The GnuCash attempts to get the transactions from the online bank even >> though the date range entered is incorrect. >> >> Examples for incorrect user inputs: >> 1) "to"-date is smaller than "from"-date >> 2) "to"-date is in the future >> >> In both cases GnuCash tries to get a connection to the online bank. It >> takes a while. >> After that GnuCash shows an error message: "Error on executing job. >> Status: >> error - job contains errors". The error message is very general and does >> not say what is wrong. >> >> It would be better to check the user inputs *before* the request will be >> send to >> the bank, and to show a error message if the entered date range is wrong, >> *without* creating the connection to the online bank. >> >> examples error messages for invalid user data: >> for (1): The date range is wrong. "To"-date cann't be smaller than the >> "from"-date. >> for (2): The date range is wrong. "To"-date cann't be in the future. >> >> >> >> == (B) show additionally *booking date* in "List of downloaded >> transactions" == >> >> If I try to get the transactions from my online bank only for the day >> 2018-07-16 (date range: 07/16/2018 - 07/16/2018) I see the following >> transactions in window "List of downloaded transations": >> >> Date Account Amount Description ... >> 07/14/2018 xxxx xxx xxx >> 07/16/2018 xxxx xxx xxx >> 07/16/2018 xxxx xxx xxx >> 07/17/2018 xxxx xxx xxx >> >> At first time I was wondering, why I got the transactions for the days out >> of the entered date range. After a reconciliation with a csv export from >> my >> bank I founded, that all these transactions have a booking date >> "2018-07-16": >> >> Booking Date Value Date Account Amount Description ... >> 2018-07-16 2018-07-14 xxxx xxx xxx >> 2018-07-16 2018-07-16 xxxx xxx xxx >> 2018-07-16 2018-07-16 xxxx xxx xxx >> 2018-07-16 2018-07-17 xxxx xxx xxx >> >> GnuCash and AqBanking request the transations with the "booking date", >> but show it only with "value date" in "list of downloaded transactions" or >> in a "account register". >> >> This behavior can confuse some users. For me, it was also initially not >> clear why GnuCash gets transactions outside the requested date range. >> >> Would it be possible to add "booking date" field additionaly to the list >> of >> downloaded transactions? Or as an option in GnuCash Preferences? >> >> >> >> == (C) size of "Certificate Received" window == >> >> The GnuCash shows a window with the certificate when I start retrieving >> the >> transactions from the bank. In this window are displayed the different >> properties of the certificate. Among other things also SHA512 hash. It >> takes up a lot of space on the window. The window has a size of 1231 x 321 >> px and cann't be resized. >> >> Would it be possible to redesign this GUI element, so that it get an area >> with a horizontal scroll bar? >> >> >> >> For more details see images in attachment. >> >> What do you think about this points? Any other ideas, how we can imporove >> it? >> Should I create bug reports for A, B and C? >> >> >> Dimang, >> >> Mechtilde already filed https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=796779 that >> includes your item 3. >> >> Please file bugs (or do PRs if you’re up for it) for the other two, >> they’ll just get lost here. >> >> A commentary, though, on item 2: Of course the date range is going to be >> the bank’s dates, it’s expecting rather much of them to expect that they’d >> be able to filter on the date you posted a transaction to GnuCash. If >> you’re downloading credit card transactions then you might reasonably >> expect the bank to filter on the charge date, and I expect that you’d find >> some that do. That will be the date that the merchant processes the charge >> to the bank, of course, not necessarily the date that the transaction took >> place. >> >> >> Regards, >> John Ralls >> >> >> >> > Hello John, > > Thank you for your reply. I will file a bugs for items 1 and 2, and then > try to send PRs for it. > > For item 2: Do you agree that it would be helpful to display the > value date additionally to booking date in the "list of downloaded > transactions" window? > > > Regards, > Di Mang > > > _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
