Thanks for that clarification, that matches with what I’m experiencing here.

 

It also seems to fully explain what the OP was on about originally.

 

Paul

 

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Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2024 8:12 AM
To: Paul Kroitor <p...@kroitor.ca>
Cc: David Carlson <david.carlson....@gmail.com>; bbc104 via gnucash-user 
<gnucash-user@gnucash.org>
Subject: Re: [GNC] Imbalance Records with zero amounts

 

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, at 11:42 PM, Paul Kroitor <p...@kroitor.ca 
<mailto: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


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From: gnucash-user <gnucash-user-bounces+paul=kroitor.ca <http://kroitor.ca> 
@gnucash.org> On Behalf Of Paul Kroitor
Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2024 11:08 PM
To: 'David Carlson' <david.carlson....@gmail.com 
<mailto:david.carlson....@gmail.com> >
Cc: gnucash-user@gnucash.org <mailto: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 
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Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2024 10:39 PM
To: p...@kroitor.ca <mailto:p...@kroitor.ca> 
Cc: stan...@fastmail.fm <mailto:stan...@fastmail.fm> ; gnucash-user@gnucash.org 
<mailto: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%20%3cmailto: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...@fastmail.fm%20%3cmailto:stan%2...@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.

 


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