How to reset Income/Excpense account dates globally?

[Thomas Baumgart]

Hi,

On Sunday 25 December 2016 17:37:36 Peter J. Farley III wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: KMyMoney [mailto:kmymoney-bounces at kde.org] On Behalf Of
> > Thomas Baumgart
> > Sent: Sunday, December 25, 2016 2:50 AM
> > To: KMyMoney Users' mailing list
> > Subject: Re: How to reset Income/Excpense account dates globally?
> > 
> > Hi Peter,
> 
> > On Sunday 18 December 2016 18:18:39 Peter J. Farley III wrote:
> <Trimmed>
> 
> > > I will restart the process again from scratch (empty account template,
> > > no payees or transactions) and log what happens at each step and
> > > report my results as soon as I can.
> > 
> > Well, don't put too much effort into this with 4.7.2 as the behavior has
> > been changed in 4.8.0.
> 
> Can you point me to any documentation or log of how the behavior is changed
> in 4.8.0?  I will check the ChangeLog file, but is the behavior change
> documented anywhere else?

https://cgit.kde.org/kmymoney.git/commit/?h=4.8&id=7a4901c668871882bba75068bf1256f2bf00dba0

> I do have the 4.8.0 install file downloaded, so perhaps I will switch to
> that version before I start again.
> 
> <Trimmed>
> 
> > > BTW, is it possible to actually import an entire externally-modified
> > > account template (a *.kmt file) into a new, completely empty kMyMoney
> > > file
> > > which has no categories defined at all?  If so, what date would be
> > > assigned
> > > to those imported categories?
> > 
> > Yes it is, though it could be possible that KMyMoney only looks in a
> > specific place for them. They should show up in the 'Account' selection
> > process of the new file wizard (see
> > https://docs.kde.org/stable4/en/extragear-> > office/kmymoney/firsttime.3.html for details)
> 
> Yes, I found the directory where the default US account *.kmt files are
> stored on my system:
> 
> C:\Program Files (x86)\KMyMoney\share\apps\kmymoney\templates\en_US
> 
> So if I decide to do so I can copy a custom *.kmt file into that directory
> and have it available for my accounts.

Ah, you're on Windows. Indeed, that is possible. On *nix there are various 
locations where it searches for a template, but I am not sure which ones. The 
system wide one for sure.


> P.S. - Happy Holiday wishes to all.  May your days be merry, bright and
> safe.

+1

> P.P.S. - I just noticed I misspelled "Expense" as "Excpence" in the subject
> line.  Apologies for the typo. --

Honestly, I did not notice ;)

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Regards

Thomas Baumgart

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