Fwd: Re: Unable to delete some kmy categories which are greyed out, first posted on Fri Jul 24, 2020 3:05 pm

[lampsh8de]

Thanks for your reply.

Please see further annotated comments for your attention:

First -  It seems a category cannot be deleted if it is the default
category for a payee.  That seems to be why all these categories cannot
be deleted.

"Okay, this meansthat the removing of all associations (including payee) 
would allow category deletion? How do I trace and remove payee 
associations? Trust this is a straightforward process?"

A000111 is default category for P002488 and P002504, and removing those
default categories enables delete for that category.
Delete is not enabled for Category A000004, even after is becomes
enable for A000111.

"At no stage did I want to delete any category before moving its 
contents. This all started because I was prevented from deleting 
categories which appeared to have zero content. The delete option being 
greyed out. I didn’t know about the payee associations. In the absence 
of this knowledge, the workaround I employed was to move the 5 
sub-categories (A000111, A000057, 088, 106 and A000005), which I 
couldn't delete,into a freshly created parent category. I had actually 
given up on my attempt to delete these categories and was merely tidying 
up by putting themall in one place. But Ithen wondered what would happen 
if I then tried to delete my freshlycreated parent category which 
contained these5 sub-categories. To my surprise and pleasure, the delete 
option for this main category and the 5 sub-categories was now possible. 
The option of deleting the sub-categorieswas now possible via deletion 
of the main category (see attached screen shot of dialogue that opens 
after right-clicking main category and selecting delete)."

A000053 (delete disabled)  is subcategory of A000018 (delete enabled)
A000057, 088, and 106 are each the default category for one or three
Payees.

A000005 is a default category for Payee 002440.

Trying to delete category A000046 first asked which other category to
assigne associated transactions, and then said that there were sub
categoreis which could not be deleted, and to proceed, they would be
made subcategories of Exmpense.

"This is not what I wanted to do nor did I try to do so."

Are you sure that when you deleted a parent category, the undeletable
subcategory was really deleted along with it, or was it just moved up
to a top level expense category?

"The only parent category that I tried and succeeded indeletingwas the 
one that Ifreshly created."


  

On 31/07/2020 07:43, Thomas Baumgart wrote:
> FYI, since you are not subscribed to the list.
>
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> Subject: Re: Unable to delete some kmy categories which are greyed out, first posted on Fri Jul 24, 2020 3:05 pm
> Date: Donnerstag, 30. Juli 2020, 22:21:22 CEST
> From: Jack <ostroffjh at users.sourceforge.net>
> To: kmymoney-devel at kde.org
>
> On 2020.07.30 10:21, lampsh8de wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Please find attached file as requested. The problem categories
>> relating to the above post are as follows:
>>
>> 1 sub-category of A000004 (A000111)
>>
>> 3 sub-categories of A000053 (A000057, 088, 106)
>>
>> 1 sub-category of A000046 (A000005)
>>
>> Thanks for looking at this.
> (I'm using KMM compiled from git head of 5.1 branch)
>
> First -  It seems a category cannot be deleted if it is the default
> category for a payee.  That seems to be why all these categories cannot
> be deleted.
> A000111 is default category for P002488 and P002504, and removing those
> default categories enables delete for that category.
> Delete is not enabled for Category A000004, even after is becomes
> enable for A000111.
>
> A000053 (delete disabled)  is subcategory of A000018 (delete enabled)
> A000057, 088, and 106 are each the default category for one or three
> Payees.
>
> A000005 is a default category for Payee 002440.
>
> Trying to delete category A000046 first asked which other category to
> assigne associated transactions, and then said that there were sub
> categoreis which could not be deleted, and to proceed, they would be
> made subcategories of Exmpense.
>
> Are you sure that when you deleted a parent category, the undeletable
> subcategory was really deleted along with it, or was it just moved up
> to a top level expense category?
>
> Question for the developers: when you delete a category, it asks what
> other category to assign associated transactions to.  Is there any
> reason not to reassign payee default categories (and scheduled
> transactions) in the same way?
>
> Jack
>
>
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