On 2020-08-09 11:58, John Ralls wrote: >> On Aug 9, 2020, at 11:04 AM, Stan Brown <the_stan_br...@fastmail.fm> wrote: >> You probably know this, but just on the off chance that you don't: >> >> In the File ยป Properties dialog, there is a setting "Day threshold for >> read-only transactions." If change the default 0 in that box to a >> number, then transactions more than that many days before today can't be >> edited. >> >> It would be a lot more useful if we could set a date, in my opinion, but >> it's better than nothing.
> Really? ISTM that would be painful to use because you'd have to frequently > change the date. I could understand if you wanted to be able to set a period > selector, e.g. all transactions before the beginning of the current month are > read-only. This may be a matter of different users having different use cases. Mine is straightforward (to me): Following Adrien's recommendation, I don't actually close each month. But I want to make sure that I don't inadvertently fumble the date of a new transaction and put it into last month, or accidentally change a transaction of last month because of an errant mouse click. As GC is set up now, to achieve that I would have to change the number of days every day, which is, as you say, painful. If I could just set "no alterations of anything dated 2020-07-31 or earlier", that would be quite simple, and I'd only have to change it once a month. What's your use case for setting number of days, if you're willing to say? (I'm not suggesting removing the number-of-days setting, if there's any reasonable chance someone actually wants it. But surely it would not be hard to add a "freeze transactions before specified date" setting, and unless I miss my guess it would prove to be more popular.) . -- Regards, Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com https://OakRoadSystems.com _______________________________________________ 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.
