Re: Date limit on transactions / freezing transactions

2018-03-24 Thread Stan Brown
On 2018-03-24 09:53, Maf. King wrote: > From the little I know about these things, I think that your export/import > experiments will have more chance of success if you wait for v3 which is in > the works at the moment. I doubt I'll be ready before then anyway, so it works out. It's taken me

Re: Date limit on transactions / freezing transactions

2018-03-24 Thread Maf. King
On Saturday, 24 March 2018 09:54:15 GMT Stan Brown wrote: > On 2018-03-24 00:44, David T. wrote> > > On a side note, I recall you saying you are planning to merge these two > > files at a later date. Do you have any idea how you plan to do this? I > > ask, because as far as I know, there is no

Re: Date limit on transactions / freezing transactions

2018-03-24 Thread Stan Brown
On 2018-03-24 00:44, David T. wrote> There is a setting that might help you: File->Properties->Day threshold > for read-only transactions  Thanks! That's exactly what I was looking for, but I didn't know where to look. I tried it, and it does just what I need. > On a side note, I recall you

Re: Date limit on transactions / freezing transactions

2018-03-23 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
Stan,  There is a setting that might help you: File->Properties->Day threshold for read-only transactions  I'm not sure whether it will help in your use case, but it's worth mentioning.  On a side note, I recall you saying you are planning to merge these two files at a later date. Do you have

Re: Date limit on transactions / freezing transactions

2018-03-23 Thread Stan Brown
Thanks, but I meant that while I am entering later months, I don't want to be able to alter earlier months. Such an alteration happened once, in September 2012 while I was (I thought) entering November 2012, and it's only when the 30 November 2012 balance sheet didn't match my source database

Re: Date limit on transactions / freezing transactions

2018-03-23 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 3/23/2018 2:28 PM, Stan Brown wrote: I am entering historical data 2011-2017 in a Gnucash file separate from my current file (starting 2018). (1) In the historical file, I want to limit transactions so that I can't enter a date of 2018 or otherwise out a certain range. Is there any way?

Date limit on transactions / freezing transactions

2018-03-23 Thread Stan Brown
I am entering historical data 2011-2017 in a Gnucash file separate from my current file (starting 2018). (1) In the historical file, I want to limit transactions so that I can't enter a date of 2018 or otherwise out a certain range. Is there any way? (2) Also in the historical file, once I've