Changing the opening date of an account

[Philippe Debrabant]

Bonjour Thomas,

Thanks for your help, it works. I have the last version (5.0.5) of KMM.
This is what I did :

1) Modified configuration to make visible the equity accounts ("Afficher 
les comptes titres")
2) I saw that I had 3 new accounts in the list : "Opening Balances", 
"Solde d'ouverture", "Soldes initiaux". The last is empty, but I found 
my opening operation in "Solde d'ouverture".
3) I changed the date for "01/01/2018". Next I opened my account 
("active" type). The opening date has changed for "01/01/2018". I have 
edited the account and change the date for "26/04/2018".
4) I saved the file => no more error.

About the "small display bug", now that I better understand the process 
of initialization of an account, I can say it's not a bug. The title 
"Opening balance" is nearly correct. In my case it's "Solde 
d'ouverture". But before your mail, I did not know these special 
accounts (Titre).

Have a good week end !
Philippe

Le 10/08/2019 à 14:18, Thomas Baumgart a écrit :
> Salut Philippe,
> 
> On Samstag, 10. August 2019 12:32:28 CEST Philippe Debrabant wrote:
> 
>  > Hi all,
> 
>  >
> 
>  > I changed the opening date of an existing account and the opening
> 
>  > balance (0 initially). Since that operation, each time I save the file I
> 
>  > get an error message : (google trad)
> 
>  >
> 
>  > ------------------------------------
> 
>  > * The opening date of the "Opening balance" account can not be modified
> 
>  > to manage the date of sending the transaction "T000000000000009008".
> 
>  >    * The date of dispatch "26/04/2018" of the transaction
> 
>  > "T000000000000009008" is prior to the opening date of one of the
> 
>  > accounts to which it refers.
> 
>  >      Related accounts: Opening balance
> 
>  >      The date of dispatch has not been changed to "04/06/2018".
> 
>  >
> 
>  > Finished: 0 problem fixed. 2 problems still present.
> 
>  > ------------------------------------
> 
> You did not mention the version of KMyMoney you are using, but I expect 
> it might be a bit older. But that really doesn't matter.
> 
> Here's what happened: you modified the opening date and added an opening 
> balance. The addition of the opening balance creates a transaction from 
> the equity account called 'Opening balances' to/from the account you 
> modified on the date of account opening. This is no problem for your 
> account. That date though, might be before the opening date of the 
> opening balances account. Here's how to fix this:
> 
> Mark the option to show the equity accounts (could be called "Afficher 
> les comptes titres"). This will show the opening balances account in the 
> accounts view. Change its opening date to a date prior to the first 
> transaction you want to record. It does not have any relevance, and I 
> think newer versions do set it to something like 1.1.1900 or similar.
> 
>  > Small display bug : the name of the account "Opening balance" is false.
> 
>  > Not the problem here ;-) (but should be corrected).
> 
> Is it the French translation? Please report this to the french 
> translation team. Check https://l10n.kde.org/team-infos.php?teamcode=fr 
> howto get in touch with them.
> 
>  > It's an "active" account, created in the same time of a loan account.
> 
>  > The date of creation is "04/06/2018" with a balance of 0. I changed that
> 
>  > for a creation on "26/04/2018" with a balance <> 0.
> 
>  >
> 
>  > Did I made a mistake ? Or is it a bug ?
> 
> Please see above.
> 
>  > Thanks for your help.
> 
> You're welcome
> 
> Thomas
> 
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> Regards
> 
> Thomas Baumgart
> 
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