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Bug 105803 - Use previous choice as default for imbalance dialog
Use previous choice as default for imbalance dialog
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: GnuCash
Classification: Other
Component: Register
unspecified
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: David Hampton
Chris Shoemaker
: 117228 149441 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-02-11 11:54 UTC by Boris Goldowsky
Modified: 2018-06-29 20:28 UTC
See Also:
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Description Boris Goldowsky 2003-02-11 11:54:14 UTC 
When attempting to enter a transaction that is not balanced, a "Rebalance" error 
dialog is raised with several options.

I suspect most people have a usual strategy for dealing with these, and don't read 
all the options all the time (for my own part, I always choose "balance manually" 
and go back and look at what I messed up.  It would be nice to be able to do this 
without having to switch from the keyboard to the mouse, by pressing "return" to the 
default).  

So could the default setting for this dialog be a user option?

Alternatively, it could just default to the option used last time  (or this could be one 
of the user-configurable behaviors).
Comment 1 David Hampton 2003-03-15 07:21:50 UTC 
This dialog can be navigated with the tab key and the space bar used
to  make your choice, so it is possible to do without taking your
hands off the keyboard.  Still, I think the idea of having the dialog
default to whatever choice was made the previous time is a good one.
Comment 2 Christian Stimming 2005-03-14 09:05:01 UTC 
*** Bug 149441 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Andreas Köhler 2006-05-02 11:17:54 UTC 
Is it still possible with current SVN to see this dialog? It seems like transactions are automatically balanced with splits to Imbalance-Cur.
Comment 4 Christian Stimming 2006-09-13 13:17:19 UTC 
This is related to bug#164317 bug#162575.

But I'm asking myself the same question as comment#3 - does this dialog still appear? I always see that if you leave the transaction, then the imbalance is added as a split to Imbalance-CUR, but IMHO that sucks royally, because the last thing I want in my books is this automated Imbalance-CUR account. I would strongly prefer to have that dialog back again, and then add either this feature request or  one from bug#164317.
Comment 5 Christian Stimming 2006-10-18 11:58:44 UTC 
*** Bug 117228 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 John Ralls 2018-06-29 20:28:10 UTC 
GnuCash bug tracking has moved to a new Bugzilla host. The new URL for this bug is https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105803. Please continue processing the bug there and please update any external references or bookmarks.