[Kmymoney-devel] Consistency Check for opening dates

[Thomas Baumgart]

Hi,

On Wednesday 21 October 2015 21:08:36 Christian Dávid wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> for a while now I receive such consistency check errors:
> 
>   * Transaction 'T000000000000000112' has a post date '⟨date⟩' before one of
> the referenced account's opening date.
>     Referenced accounts: ⟨account name⟩
>     The post date was not updated to '⟨date from above +3 days⟩'.
> […]
> Finished: 0 problems corrected. 2 problems still present.
> 
> I think this error is not useful for the user. Mainly because the long id is
> shown – to normal users this is the only place to meet this id, so it is
> absolutely useless. We should change that (I can do that).

Not really, because in case you copy that long id to the search bar above the 
ledger in the said account KMyMoney selects exactly that transaction. I am not 
sure if we have another means to identify a transaction within a ledger other 
than showing all details which would swamp the report and confuse the user 
even more.

> However, I wanted to ask if we should stick to this message? KMyMoney can
> handle this situation very well, so why should we care?

We left this situation as one that needs to be handled by the user manually. 
All the ones that can be handled automatically are handled by KMyMoney 
already.

> Is there a way to show this message only if you start the check manually
> (Tool -> Consistency Check)?

Simple answer: no.
The solution: fix the problem in the data

It would be extremely useful to know how you ended up there, as this scenario 
should not happen in the first place. I think that all the manual entry 
methods do not allow to enter transactions before the opening date of an 
account, so I expect the source to be one of the import handlers.

-- 

Regards

Thomas Baumgart

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