Re: [GNC] Imbalance Records with zero amounts

2024-06-28 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I intentionally do this with relevant memo text to keep track of transactions I'm not sure about. That gives me an easy list via the Imbalance account to see what still needs to be resolved, or just give up and committed as-is. Regards, Adrien On 6/27/24 2:06 AM, David Carlson wrote: Well, A

Re: [GNC] Imbalance Records with zero amounts

2024-06-27 Thread Paul Kroitor
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

Re: [GNC] Imbalance Records with zero amounts

2024-06-27 Thread sunfish62--- via gnucash-user
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 >On Behalf Of Paul Kroitor >Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2024 11:08 PM >To: '

Re: [GNC] Imbalance Records with zero amounts

2024-06-27 Thread David Carlson
of the group *without* "Imbalance" in the >> account field. >> >> Paul >> >> >> -Original Message- >> From: gnucash-user On >> Behalf Of Paul Kroitor >> Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2024 11:08 PM >> To: 'David Carls

Re: [GNC] Imbalance Records with zero amounts

2024-06-26 Thread David Carlson
balance" in the > account field. > > Paul > > > -Original Message- > From: gnucash-user On > Behalf Of Paul Kroitor > Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2024 11:08 PM > To: 'David Carlson' > Cc: gnucash-user@gnucash.org > Subject: Re: [GNC] Imbala

Re: [GNC] Imbalance Records with zero amounts

2024-06-26 Thread Paul Kroitor
arlson' 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 st

Re: [GNC] Imbalance Records with zero amounts

2024-06-26 Thread Paul Kroitor
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

Re: [GNC] Imbalance Records with zero amounts

2024-06-26 Thread David Carlson
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

Re: [GNC] Imbalance Records with zero amounts

2024-06-26 Thread Paul Kroitor
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 li

Re: [GNC] Imbalance Records with zero amounts

2024-06-26 Thread Stan Brown (using GC 4.14)
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 >

Re: [GNC] Imbalance Records with zero amounts

2024-06-26 Thread Jim DeLaHunt
On 2024-06-26 08:20, Joseph Hesse wrote: Hello, I have several consecutive records in my imbalance account where the amounts in the deposit and withdrawal columns are both zero (blank). … This seems like a bug or an error in my bookkeeping.  I am using the latest version of gnucash. I susp

Re: [GNC] Imbalance Records with zero amounts

2024-06-26 Thread fromvendor
pw = "getrich" Subject: [GNC] Imbalance Records with zero amounts Hello, I have several consecutive records in my imbalance account where the amounts in the deposit and withdrawal columns are both zero (blank). These records are  split transaction records.  When I examine the items in

[GNC] Imbalance Records with zero amounts

2024-06-26 Thread Joseph Hesse
Hello, I have several consecutive records in my imbalance account where the amounts in the deposit and withdrawal columns are both zero (blank). These records are  split transaction records.  When I examine the items in the split the imbalance shows zero.  I don't see any error when I jump t