On Tuesday 20 August 2002 8:17, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 11:27:55AM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: [large snip] > > I, personally, would vote for no change, but a more detailed user manual > > with advice on issues like this. > > But users don't read user manuals. We can complain about that fact as much > as we like, but it is a fact. > > And who can blame them? This isn't brain surgery, its just accounting, and > if an experienced accounts-person (let alone a qualified accountant) has > to read the manual to make sense of the program, then there is something > wrong with the program. > Okay, I think what you are saying is sound. So I am transfering my vote to user-selected default accounts for all dropdown field types. There are only a few types in fact, so we are only talking about a few extra configuration items in the user profile. And this would still allow the use of catch-error transfer accounts (as I currently do) if some users prefer that to using the most common account as the default. As I said before, I prefer the catch-all method because I lose less time by having to select every time - even for the common accounts - than I do looking for the ones I forgot to allocate to the correct account.
I guess it is really a pretty trivial piece of coding too, as the same function will serve for all drop-downs - I was getting over-protective of our noble authors. -- richard ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: OSDN - Tired of that same old cell phone? Get a new here for FREE! https://www.inphonic.com/r.asp?r=sourceforge1&refcode1=vs3390 ------------------------------------------------------- (un)subscribe: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sql-ledger-users Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
