If I understand correctly, the AR & AP accounts use them to track links
between payments and bills/invoices. If you don't use the Business
Features, then those two shouldn't be an issue.
I'm not so sure simply using View Lots is how they are activated for an
account. Some accounts have none anyway. (like a cash account)
I would think that some types of accounts use them and others do not.
And I didn't think they were optional or that I had the ability to turn
them on or not. But if so, there should certainly be a way to turn them off.
The bugs you mention are pretty bad, especially the one about auto
re-calculating gains just by viewing them. That's a nightmare. I'd call
it a 'blocking bug' or at least very high severity. (along with the bug
that silently deletes linked sale transactions)
Regards,
Adrien
On 12/4/22 9:16 AM, David T. via gnucash-user wrote:
David,
Lots get activated on an account by account basis; in any given account,
you open the View Lots window and either create/assign lots manually or
"Scrub" an account to have GnuCash automatically assign your shares to
lots. Over the years, I've opted to implement the lots on a substantial
number of accounts (but not all of them), and now I'm faced with the
prospect of manually removing those lots from all the accounts that I
previously used them on. For the record, when I saved the file in SQLite
format, the lots table had 1084 rows in it. That's a lot of editing!
Complicating this is the fact that every time I open the lots
viewer-even if just to delete the lots themselves, the program
recalculates the gains transactions (regardless of the reconcile
status). This means I am having to reopen all of my (15 years)
statements and verify that the gains transactions are still accurate.
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