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, 2024, 9:14 PM Paul Kroitor <p...@kroitor.ca> wrote: > 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 > line shows zero and is deleted when the transaction is saved. > > But if the transaction shows the debit first, the imbalance line appears > in the middle, and even after it reverts to an imbalance of zero and is > saved, the zero imbalance line stays in the register. > > > Sent from my iPad > > > On Jun 26, 2024, at 9:55 PM, Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) < > stan...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > > > > 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 > >> balanced, that is, to have its credits equal its debits. GnuCash > >> enforces this requirement, but only when it saves a transaction, not > >> while you are actively entering or editing the transaction. But, it is > >> possible to tell GnuCash to save a transaction when you don't mean to, > >> while you think you are still doing data entry. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > gnucash-user mailing list > > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > > ----- > > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
