For comparison I tried the Duplicate Transaction feature in release 3.8. I do not use the Basic Ledger View much but I did switch to that view first before trying the function on a transaction that has lots of splits. Because GnuCash had been open since yesterday, I first received a pop-up asking me what date to use. I let it use yesterday's date so I could better see what happened. The resulting duplicate was identical except for the date.
Then I tried the Transaction Copy/Paste feature and found that when I tried to Paste I got a warning that I would overwrite an existing transaction, probably because I did not move to a different transaction before trying to paste. After moving to a different transaction I got the same overwrite warning. If I used the Move to Blank transaction then pasted I got the duplicate as a new entry which I had to accept before switching to a different transaction. I think all those tests passed in release 3.8, so perhaps there is a problem with the current release. On Fri, Jul 1, 2022 at 11:54 AM Paul Kinzelman <p...@kinzelman.com> wrote: > This happened in 4.9 so I upgraded to 4.11 (latest) and it's still > happening. > Running on W10. > > If I Transaction|Copy, say a credit card charge, then paste it into the > same or a different credit-card account, it doesn't display or paste > correctly. > > So if I have a transaction in a credit card account like > Date, SomeCompany, Expenses:someaccount, Payment blank, Charge $12.34, > Balance $1123 > > Then I copy it and paste it into the same or different credit card account, > I expect to see that same line with the date changed to today so that I > can Enter and commit that transaction. > > However, in Basic Ledger View after the paste, what I see is: > Date, SomeCompany, Liability:SameAccount, Payment $12.34, Charge blank, > Balance $1123 > The payment is in the wrong column, and the account in the transaction > is the same account that I'm already viewing. > And if I Enter, the transaction seems to vanish because it's a transfer > from > and to the same account. > > But if I do the same thing but before Enter, go to View Transaction > Journal, > then the pasted transaction looks correct, just like the one I copied. > And then if I Enter, the transaction is committed correctly. > And then if I go back to Basic Ledger View, the transaction still looks OK. > > So to make it work, I have to go to View Transaction Journal, do the > paste and > enter, then go back to Basic Ledger View > -Paul Kinzelman > > _______________________________________________ > 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.
