Paul, When you press ENTER, you commit the transaction, thus creating a permanent split that must be deleted.
Were you to press TAB to navigate to the next split, the transaction would not yet be committed, and the temporarily-created imbalance split *should* be removed when it returns to zero and you finally commit the transaction. This distinction is and has been in the docs for many years. David T. On Jun 26, 2024, 11:42 PM, at 11:42 PM, Paul Kroitor <p...@kroitor.ca> wrote: >David, if we are both using 5.6 in Windows but have different >behaviours, then I expect either our settings or our procedures are >different. >1. Are you using auto-split as a register default? >2. My issue appears when I edit only a previously saved transaction. In >auto-split, one must do this it two steps, the debit side, and then the >credit side. > >Update: >Procedure to create a zero imbalance: >- (in auto-split) edit the first (debit) amount, press ENTER: Imbalance >split is created (NB: the account field in the split actually says >"Imbalance"). >- edit second (credit) amount, Press ENTER. Imbalance changes to 0. >- Press ENTER again, cursor moves to next transaction. >- Go back to prior transaction, and zero imbalance is still there. > >Procedure to NOT create a zero imbalance: >- exactly as above only use down arrow (or left mouse click) to >navigate between lines. > >Note that in this second case, there is an imbalance amount line >created but it created in bottom line of the group *without* >"Imbalance" in the account field. > >Paul > > >-----Original Message----- >From: gnucash-user <gnucash-user-bounces+paul=kroitor...@gnucash.org> >On Behalf Of Paul Kroitor >Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2024 11:08 PM >To: 'David Carlson' <david.carlson....@gmail.com> >Cc: gnucash-user@gnucash.org >Subject: Re: [GNC] Imbalance Records with zero amounts > >I am using 5.6 here (on Windows), but I’m pretty sure this behaviour >has been around for as long as I can remember (and I started on 2.6). > > > >However, in playing around trying to document the exact steps to >recreate the issue, it seems to me that it’s changed in that it’s more >pervasive than before. > > > >It used to be that some edits of existing transactions would create a >temporary Imbalance split as the last split, and those ones would >disappear once the transaction was saved. But other edits would create >the temporary Imbalance split in between the debit and credit entries, >and those would stick around. > > > >However, I now cannot edit any existing transaction amounts without a >zero Imbalance split sticking around. > > > >Note that I always work in auto-split registers, so when a transaction >must be corrected, I change the debit side, which of course creates an >imbalance line. I then change the credit side, which eliminates the >imbalance (it becomes zero) but the split line stays in the register >(in every test I do now, apparently). Something has definitely changed, >because it wasn’t this bad before. > > > > > > > > > >From: David Carlson <david.carlson....@gmail.com> >Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2024 10:39 PM >To: p...@kroitor.ca >Cc: stan...@fastmail.fm; gnucash-user@gnucash.org >Subject: Re: [GNC] Imbalance Records with zero amounts > > > >Nobody is revealing which version they are using. In older versions, >ie before 5.something, imbalance entries of 0 automatically >disappeared when a transaction was saved. I think it is a bug if they >are now being saved. They are disappearing in my copy of release 5.6 >in windows. > > > >On Wed, Jun 26, 2024, 9:14 PM Paul Kroitor <p...@kroitor.ca ><mailto:p...@kroitor.ca> > wrote: > >I get one of these empty (zero amount) splits every time I have to >change both sides of an already entered transaction in a register set >to auto-split. > >Oddly, if the transaction shows the credit first, the imbalance gets >created (temporarily non-zero) as the last split and, once the >imbalance line shows zero and is deleted when the transaction is saved. > >But if the transaction shows the debit first, the imbalance line >appears in the middle, and even after it reverts to an imbalance of >zero and is saved, the zero imbalance line stays in the register. > > >Sent from my iPad > >> On Jun 26, 2024, at 9:55 PM, Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) ><stan...@fastmail.fm <mailto:stan%2...@fastmail.fm> > wrote: >> >> To be clear, you're talking about accidentally hitting the enter key > >> instead of the Tab key when moving between fields, right? >> >> Stan Brown >> Tehachapi, CA, USA >> https://BrownMath.com >> >>> On 2024-06-26 17:04, Jim DeLaHunt wrote: >>> >>> As you know, double-entry bookkeeping requires every transaction to >>> be balanced, that is, to have its credits equal its debits. GnuCash >>> enforces this requirement, but only when it saves a transaction, not > >>> while you are actively entering or editing the transaction. But, it >>> is possible to tell GnuCash to save a transaction when you don't >mean >>> to, while you think you are still doing data entry. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gnucash-user mailing list >> gnucash-user@gnucash.org <mailto:gnucash-user@gnucash.org> To update >> your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >> ----- >> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > >_______________________________________________ >gnucash-user mailing list >gnucash-user@gnucash.org <mailto:gnucash-user@gnucash.org> To update >your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >----- >Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > >_______________________________________________ >gnucash-user mailing list >gnucash-user@gnucash.org >To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >----- >Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > >_______________________________________________ >gnucash-user mailing list >gnucash-user@gnucash.org >To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >----- >Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. 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