[moneydance] problem with Auto-Create New Transactions in beta Moneydance (555)

[Gordon Alley]

Just before I sent the original message, I reproduced the behavior just to
be sure I would have my facts straight.

After turning the Auto-Create New Transaction preference on, I entered a new
transaction in a bank account register by using cmd-N and then entering some
data (cmd-N always creates a new transaction with the current date as the
default). When I used cmd-R to record that transaction, MD auto-created a
new transaction with the 12/31/2007 date.

I want to reiterate that cmd-N always produces a transaction with the
current date (actually the date when the MD app was started, a distinction
noticeable when I work through midnight, and I'm fine with that).

I believe this worked correctly at one time, but I turned off the preference
a year or so ago when MD started providing unusable default dates in
auto-create transactions (I don't recall if this is exactly the same
behavior as then, though). So this probably isn't something that just popped
up in this beta

Thanks for your reply.

-Gordon Alley

On 1/15/07, Sean Reilly <sreilly at seanreilly.com> wrote:
>
> There's nothing in the code that will set the date for a new transaction
> to
> the end of the year.  The date usually defaults to either today (when you
> first start MD) or the date of the last transaction that was
> entered.  Could
> it be that you accidentally entered a transaction on Dec 31 2007?
>
> On 1/15/07, Gordon Alley <gordon.alley at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > When I turn on the Auto-Creat New Transactions preference in the
> > newest Moneydance beta, it creates a transaction with the date set to
> > 12/31/2007.
> >
> > That doesn't make any sense to me. Isn't it highly unlikely that I'm
> > going to enter a transaction for the last day of the year (unless it
> > happens to be the last day of the year)? It makes much more sense to
> > use the same date as the just-entered transaction.
> >
> > Is that the intended behaviour?
> >
> > I'm using an an iMac G4 800 with OS X 10.4.8.
>


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Gordon B. Alley
http://galley.home.texas.net