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Bug 343644 - GnuCash too eager to add Imbalance-USD account
GnuCash too eager to add Imbalance-USD account
Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 117228
Product: GnuCash
Classification: Other
Component: Register
1.9.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Chris Shoemaker
Chris Shoemaker
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-06-02 00:02 UTC by Bill Wohler
Modified: 2018-06-29 21:06 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.13/2.14


Description Bill Wohler 2006-06-02 00:02:57 UTC 
After hitting Enter to enter a split (rather than the entire transaction), an Imbalance-USD account is created for the running imbalance rather than waiting until the entire transaction is entered and the user says "to enter a balancing item" to the dialog that appears.

GnuCash 1.8 did not do this.

Please do not create accounts unless asked to do so by the user.

I tried deleting the Imbalance-USD account, but it was immediately re-created. I therefore gave it an account code of 9999 to hide it at the end for now.
Comment 1 Chris Shoemaker 2006-06-02 01:10:36 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 117228 ***
Comment 2 Bill Wohler 2006-06-02 15:14:40 UTC 
Yes, I had seen #117228 but I thought that bug was about not bringing up the imbalance dialog after confirming the entire transaction. This one is about automatically adding a transaction while entering split transactions. If what you are saying is that an imbalance dialog will be brought up for each and every split item you enter, I will report a bug since that will be *very* annoying when entering splits with many items. Thanks.
Comment 3 Stephen P Williams 2006-06-03 22:02:27 UTC 
Bill,

I too have been struggling with the new "feature" of gnucash that keeps trying to automatically add a split to the "Imbalance-USD" account.  

This is particularly annoying when you are cloning a transaction and changing the amount.  In gnucash < 1.9.0, I had alwas relied on "enter" to pop up the "imbalanced transaction" dialog, but now that dialog is no longer there.

However, I have discovered that if you leave the first split with the "Tab" key instead of "Enter", then you get a chance to edit the oher split without creating the annoying "Imbalance-USD" split.
Comment 4 Bill Wohler 2006-06-04 02:21:14 UTC 
The down arrow works well too.
Comment 5 John Ralls 2018-06-29 21:06:34 UTC 
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