On Wednesday 26 December 2007 05:21:06 pm Derek Atkins wrote: > Hi, > > Over this weekend I implemented a simple book closing feature > that lets you zeroize the Income and Expense accounts into > Equity. It's comprised of changesets r16713, 16714, and 16715. > It's only impemented in the trunk branch at the moment. > > Please test and comment and let me know if you find any problems with > it. If it works well and doesn't have many issues maybe we can get it > into 2.2.3 or 2.2.4. > > Thanks, > > -derek
Couple things: * it'd be nice to have some sort of feedback to the user that something is happening. How hard would it be to add a progress bar or something? * I noticed that one of my expense accounts was not configured as an expense account, so it was skipped. I then re-ran the book close program only to find out that not only did the revised account get closed out, a second closing transaction was added to the other accounts. This is probably because I chose a future date (12/31/07) for the close out. When I re-ran the close using that future date, gnc didn't see the pre-existing zeroing out transaction on 12/31/07. * It'd be nice if the dialog would remember the previous entires for the date, income and expense accounts. * It might also be a good idea for the user to be presented with a review dialog with suitable warning about book closing. Something like "This will create a zeroing transaction for all your income and expense accounts as of $DATE_SELECTED" with the obligatory OK/CANCEL buttons. *If gnucash can remember the last book close date, a warning could be displayed if the book close is within say 30 days of the last close, telling the user something like "You just closed the books on $LAST_CLOSE_DATE, num_days ago. Are you sure you want to close the books again?" But it looks like a great start to a useful feechur. Thanks, Derek! Tim -- Fedora Core release 6 (Zod), Linux 2.6.22.14-72.fc6 KDE: 3.5.8-1 Fedora 22:05:01 up 3 days, 8:02, 2 users, load average: 0.24, 0.21, 0.32 "It's what you learn after you know it all that counts" John Wooden
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