2014-10-18 14:30 GMT+03:00 Allan <agande...@gmail.com>: > On 18/10/14 12:07, Cristian Oneț wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I'm looking into this [1] report. I found that since this commit [2] >> made by Allan, an amount is mandatory, one can't add a transaction >> with the split value 0, is this restriction really necessary? >> >> I know that my wife used to add a 0 value transaction as a reminder >> and correct the amount later. I know that a schedule could be used for >> that but it's really a big gun to setup one when all you want is to >> have a transaction for which the amount is not yet known. >> >> Do you have anything against removing this restriction? >> >> Regards, >> Cristian >> >> [1] https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=69&t=123274&p=321894#p321635 >> [2] >> https://projects.kde.org/projects/extragear/office/kmymoney/repository/revisions/94935cf78e0135e2bb0cceff3c0dbde8c1c07e6d > > > I do get more or less regular transactions with a zero amount. > > One is from a bank, with an interest payment, which, these days, is usually > zero. > > Another is from a credit card, which is also a loyalty card, where points > are awarded depending on the amount. Every three months, a voucher is > issued for an appropriate reward amount. The entry on the statement is > documenting the issue of the voucher for so many points, the amount of the > transaction being zero. > > So, at least for the first of those, I think a zero amount is *needed*, the > second less so. > > As to whether or not an amount is *needed*, the only point I can make is > that, since practically all transactions will have a non-zero amount, > requiring there to actually be an amount, acts as a reminder to the user > that when entering a transaction, he needs, usually to enter an amount. I > think that is what I had in mind when I made that change. I suppose a > tool-tip could prompt the user to think.
I don't think that it should be necessary for the application to remind the user to enter an amount, I really hate those applications that try to be smarter than the user. If the user really forgets to enter the amount he will see the value 0 and can change it afterwards. I don't see why we should have these kinds of restrictions. Regards, Cristian > > Allan > > _______________________________________________ > KMyMoney-devel mailing list > KMyMoney-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kmymoney-devel _______________________________________________ KMyMoney-devel mailing list KMyMoney-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kmymoney-devel
