I like option B. The session date could default to the current system
date on login, but also remember the last date entered for a
transaction, and use that as the default for the next transaction.
I will often enter a batch of transactions at one sitting, comprising
3 or 4 different transaction dates. This feature would be very useful
for me. If I had a penny for every time I've entered a transaction on
the wrong date and had to reverse and re-do, I'd have... £2.37.
Cheers,
Richard
Quoting Roy Nicholl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Obviously my choice of words to describe the capability was neither
> sufficiently clear nor complete.
>
> Setting a transaction date on a per session basis is no more of a
> kludge than setting a global default ... and neither should have any
> impact on the security of the system [non-repudiation requirements
> should necessitate an internal audit control {i.e. audit trail of
> user actions ... in particular those which affect change on data
> stored in the system} which is internal to the system and beyond the
> reach of the user].
>
> In fact you could probably combine the features of a global, or per
> user, setting that give the user a choice of, say, a) using the
> current, system date, for entry of new transactions; b) the default
> date for new transactions is the date of the last transaction
> inputted into the system; or c) the user is prompted for the
> transaction entry date (i.e. session date) at login.
>
> ... just more fuel for discussion,
>
> Roy
>
> On 15-Apr-2007, at 00:59, David Tangye wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 07:39 -0300, Roy Nicholl wrote:
>>> One of the commercial accounting packages I used years ago (simply/
>>> accpac?) would prompt you to set the "session date" when you ran it/
>>> logged on. The offered default was the current system date (simply
>>> hit return and it was yours). This allowed you to change the date
>>> for initial data entry during that session. I cannot recall if each
>>> new transaction defaulted to the selected session date of the date of
>>> the previously submitted transaction.
>> That's a similar idea, except its a bit of the kludge to virtually
>> transport you to a past date in entirety, when all you want to do is
>> enter some transactions for a past range of dates, eg 'catching up
>> a bit
>> on the books'. You should be able to still run reports, etc and not
>> have
>> all dates in the app as though you were doing it another day. Actually
>> our security-conscious guys might look dimly at this sort of facility,
>> although an audit trail of the date change might placate them.
>>
>> Further discussion might be best at sourceforge: [ 1700856 ]
>> User-preference for default date value in data
>> entry screens
>> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?
>> func=detail&aid=1700856&group_id=175965&atid=875353
>>
>>
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