[Kmymoney-devel] Question on message from consistency check

[Cristian Oneț]

2014-12-05 0:35 GMT+02:00 Jack <ostroffjh at sbcglobal.net>:
> Recently, I've been getting an odd message as part of the consistency check
> when saving the file after downloading new investment transactions.  The
> message is "* shares set to value in split of transaction
> 'T000000000000009194'" (and I may or may not have enough zero's.)  I assume
> this is related to transactions downloaded as Dividend, some of which I have
> changed to Reinvest Dividend before saving.  In any case, without doing
> anything more about this, the message is not repeated on the next save.
>
> My problem is the the T000... transaction number is not surfaced to the user
> any other place in the application.  Might it make more sense to give the
> account, date, and type of transaction, so the user could actually find it?
> Should I just file a wishlist for this?

>From what I can see a lot of consistency messages contain the transaction id.

>
> On a related note, I was thinking about filing a wishlist item to be able to
> surface the inner ids of accounts, transactions, splits, .... somewhere in
> the GUI, or perhaps as a special type of report.  I suppose the only time I
> really need or want these is when troubleshooting problems, in which case, I
> have probably unzipped a copy of the KMY file, but it's not necessarily easy
> to find what I'm looking for, so having the mapping would make it easier.
>
> Has anyone else ever run into this and thought of any other approach?

I recall hearing another request like this. If somebody comes up with
a nice way to expose these ids in the application I'm wouldn't be
against it.

Regards,
Cristian

>
> Jack
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