Out of curiosity, since I am neither an accountant nor a bookkeeper. Is
there a valid reason that someone might want to enter such a transaction?
On 9/4/2026 10:05 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:
There is an account -- the open register into which you've entered the
transaction.
There is no TRANSFER account, but that's not required because the
transaction is balanced by the $0 amount. If you had a value in there the
scrubber would just insert it into your Imbalance account.
So I repeat -- train yourself to not hit Enter until you're done entering
your transaction.
-derek
On Fri, September 4, 2026 10:00 am, Marty Landman wrote:
How is the transaction considered valid when there is no account? IMHO
not choosing an account should cause the trx to fail validation.
On 9/4/2026 9:36 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:
Hi,
I wouldn't call it a feature, but I wouldn't call it a bug. I would
call
it "GnuCash is doing exactly what you tell it to do". Namely, once you
edit ANY field in the new transaction it is considered "completed" --
and
if you hit Enter it will run through the "is this a balanced
transaction"
tester (NB: 0 == 0: Balanced) and get committed.
So you're basically saying that you want to enter a transaction with a
specific date, but without a description (this is allowed) and with
$0.00
amount (also allowed).
Train yourself to not hit Enter prematurely.
-derek
On Fri, September 4, 2026 9:15 am, Marty Landman wrote:
Notice that GnuCash creates empty transactions having nothing in it but
the date when altering the date on a blank transaction and entering.
I accidentally create these on a semi-steady basis and then have to
find
and remove them. Is this a feature for some reason? Can I remove this
ability through configuration somehow? Or get a warning before blank
trx's are created?
Marty
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