Hi John. If I can go to 10 transactions and change them 1 by 1, what’s the difference if can be iterated through, making the same change in each? I must be missing something.
I’m not a gnucash dev, but thought I would ask as I like Jean’s idea. Michael On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 10:40 PM John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: > > > > > > On Aug 30, 2020, at 10:32 AM, jean laroche <rip...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > Devs, > > > > > > I have 2 PRs that I submitted for multi-account actions. > > > With these PRs, the user can select multiple accounts in the main > account view, then: > > > - Delete multiple accounts in one shot, > > > - Edit multiple accounts in one shot (change the notes, the flags, the > color, the currency, or move them to a different parent). > > > > > > I also want to add a "duplicate" action where the user can duplicate the > selected account(s). > > > > > > All this of course isn't very useful if you already have your account > tree and you never change it. But it's very useful, in my view if you need > to setup your account tree or if you regularly need to add accounts. > > > Also, it's part of an effort to make GC more user friendly, offering > features that are common in nearly all software (select multiple, then do > something). > > > > > > I'm afraid that these PR will just be ignored, because some of the devs > just don't look favorably upon them (John for example). > > > > > > I'd like to ask devs to chime in on that. My argument is that > > > - It makes the user's life easier. > > > - It adds a feature to GC that is expected in most software (of any > kind), select multiple then do something. > > > > > > > I don't have a problem with cosmetic changes like colors, notes, or names. > Anything like currency or parents that can affect the accounting logic > shouldn't be permitted unless all of the accounts have no splits. IOW the > use case you proposed on the PR, shuffling things around when setting up a > book, is fine. Doing any of that after creating splits can change the > meaning of the splits and can't be permitted. > > > > GnuCash is not like "all other software". Just because spreadsheets let > you jump off the bridge doesn't mean that GnuCash should. ;-) > > > > Regards, > > John Ralls > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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
