I agree that mass-reparenting of accounts should be allowed, even if the accounts have splits, so that that all the selected accounts are allowed under the new parent (by type).
The only corner-case I can think of is for Stock/Mutual fund accounts, where GnuCash makes an assumption that the trading occurs in the currency of its parent account, so if you move a stock/mutual account, the currency of the new parent matters. If you change to a parent with a different currency, and there are already splits in the stock/mutual account, then there might be an interpretation problem. But for pretty much everything else, just checking the type validity is sufficient. -derek On Mon, August 31, 2020 11:40 am, jean laroche wrote: > Note we're talking about multi-*account* actions, not transactions. > Multi-transaction actions would be great, but at the moment, the GC code > does not make that easy to implement. > > @John, I agree that changing currency on an account that has splits does > not make sense. > Changing parent, if the parent is compatible, I'm not sure why that > would be disallowed: Say I've decided to change the way I organize my > expenses, and expenses that used to be in account A:B I now want to put > into account A:C:D ... I don't see what the harm is even if there are > splits in them. > Note that this is *already* possible in GC: you delete account A:B and > ask for transactions to be moved to a new account A:C:D. > > Jean > > > On 8/31/2020 4:38 AM, Fross, Michael wrote: >> 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 >> <mailto:jra...@ceridwen.us>> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> > On Aug 30, 2020, at 10:32 AM, jean laroche <rip...@gmail.com >> <mailto: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 <mailto: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 > -- Derek Atkins 617-623-3745 de...@ihtfp.com www.ihtfp.com Computer and Internet Security Consultant _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
