DaveC49, Your information is interesting, but it does not restore the behavior that previous releases already had, and the current release lost, as David T pointed out. I think he is saying that in his opinion, it wasn't broke, didn't need fixing.
On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 10:24 PM DaveC49 <davidcousen...@gmail.com> wrote: > David, > > I'm not sure why the behaviour has changed, but from a programming > prospective, it is much simpler to create the imbalance accounts at the top > level. There is no need to search for a location which may be different in > every user's CoA. One reason perhaps for keeping it at the top level is > that > it sticks out and alerts the user they have made an error in a transaction, > which is perhaps a benefit for new users, although annoying for those who > have an established workflow which takes care of detecting errors anyway > > If an older version of GnuCash was able to create new imbalance accounts in > a lower level position in the account heirarchy, then it had to be > recording > that location in the heirarchy that the Imbalance account had been shifted > to after its initial creation at the top level in some manner. > > It should not be too hard to have a preference setting for the Imbalance > account location and if a user shifts an Imbalance account from the default > location, set that preference location to the location in the CoA the > account is moved to and use that for subsequent creation of Imbalance > account entries. I can imagine that some users could want to have > Imbalance > accounts for different currencies in different locations which would > require > a preference location for each currency in use. > > Just requires someone to program/reprogram it. > > > > > -- > Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html > _______________________________________________ > 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. > -- David Carlson _______________________________________________ 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.
