Op zaterdag 2 mei 2020 08:23:19 CEST schreef Adrien Monteleone: > Indeed, I clicked Edit on an Asset account and I can only change it to: > > Bank > Cash > Asset > Credit Card > Liability > > I get the first three if there is going to be a limitation, but allowing the > last 2 and not allowing even another debit balanced account like Expenses? > > Strange. > > I’m starting to wonder if this is a bug. If not, can someone shed light on > the reasoning for not being able to refactor accounts except within their > current parent type?
The idea here is that you can't put expense accounts under the an Asset parent account. So if you want to change an asset account to become an expense account, you will first have to select a parent account that is an expense account. That will then allow you to change the account type. I agree the UI can use some more polish to make this a better experience. The UI's original idea was to show the valid account types that are available for a given parent account. I think this would be more easily understood if the parent account and the accountype widgets would switch places. It is more intuitive if a lhs selection (for left to right interfaces) affect what can be selected in a rhs selector. Not the other way around. Playing with this a bit more I wonder if other combinations make sense or possibly conflict with gnucash' internal assumptions. For example, are there valid use cases to store an income account under an expense account or the other way around ? And another minor glitch: when you start from for example an Asset account, then change the parent to a liability account and back to an asset account without closing the window in between, the asset account now suddenly has become a Liability account. Regards, Geert _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
