On 20/04/14 13:44, Chris wrote:
Hi Allan

Unfortunately this is not a solution. You should be able to update the
amount using the bulk edit feature.

When you say "You should be able to update the amount using the bulk edit feature.", do you mean that it is supposed or stated to, or do you mean "It would be useful if it did"? My immediate thought the other day was, "Why would anyone want to do that?". With just a quick look, I can't see any relevant code.

The problem seems to be that the val  field is not checked whether it
has changed or not. It is cast to a Mymoneymoney object and as it is an
empty string that object returns a 0

I would suspect that it is not checked because it is not expected to change,
but the devs really need to pronounce here.

The object probably should have a "NaN" test, it does not appear to have
such a test. Failing that the text field should be checked before the
MyMoneymoney object is instantiated and used.

What is confusing is for some reason
StdTransactionEditor::slotUpdateCategory tests for the existence of the
category label "if (categoryLabel)" and skips updating the value if it
exists. It seems that that may have been a kludge fix for some other
issue. The fact that the two types of editing, inline and using the
form, have two different program paths says to me there are bigger issues.


Again, I'm not an expert, but comparing the transaction form with the register fields, one has an Amount field, and the other has Payment and Deposit, so the processing needs are somewhat different. My deduction was that testing the Category label was a way of determining which to use. Possibly the devs can clarify/contradict.

Lastly when editing multiple transactions if you select a category that
has a tax auto split on it, it silently fails to add the tax split. That
is pretty crazy. If you rely on this software to do your annual taxes
and it silently discards taxes, then you may have problems with your tax
office. At the very least it should issue a warning. preferably it
should create the split properly. I don't know if I want a stint in jail
due to a software bug.


Chris

This last paragraph needs dev. input.

Allan


On 17/04/2014 8:38 AM, allan wrote:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=333498

--- Comment #3 from allan <agande...@gmail.com> ---
On 16/04/14 13:01, Chris wrote:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=333498

              Bug ID: 333498
             Summary: bulk edit actions results in amount of transaction
                      being zeroed
I have a potential fix for this, which appears to do the necessary,
without any apparent harmful effects.

In void StdTransactionEditor::slotUpdateCategory(const QString& id),
circa line 1543, there is an updateAmount(val), which now I execute only
if (!isMultiSelection().

I don't know if there may be a better way/place to do this.

I notice also, that Buy and Sell activities have a similar problem if a
fee account is entered.

Allan





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