I experience this in normal transactions as well. To your point regarding the strength of the anchor, I've found that clearing the fields in the split and tabbing off the end will allow you to delete that same split without raising the error.
David T. On Nov 2, 2024, 12:46 AM, at 12:46 AM, Patrick James via gnucash-user <gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: >Verifying this behavior R Losey reported using GnuCash 5.9 on Windows >11. > >Also the "anchor" is not very strong, as I changed the split account >that was supposedly anchoring the scheduled transaction, and then I >could delete the split. > >I would consider this a bug. It's definitely not a feature, but my >larger question is about why the anchor message comes up if it's so >easy to change the anchor split and then delete it. > >> On 11/01/2024 8:49 AM PDT R Losey <rlo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> I brought up the scheduled transaction editor, and attempted to >delete one >> of entry of a multi-split transaction, and I received the error >message: >> "You cannot delete this split", stating that it was anchoring this >> transaction to the register... this was in a register - it was the >> transaction editor. >> >> I am running the current version 5.9 on an M1 iMac running 14.6.1. I >> suspect it may happen on other platforms; I'll probably try on >Windows a >> bit later today. >> >> As a temporary workaround, I have set the amount of that split entry >to >> zero, and when it gets triggered and entered, I just delete the >unneeded >> line from the register, and it deletes without any problems. >> >> -- >> _________________________________ >> Richard Losey >> rlo...@gmail.com >> Micah 6:8 >> _______________________________________________ >> 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. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
