Re: Default dates on transaction entry screens

[Roy Nicholl <..hidden..>]

Not necessarily...

One of the commercial accounting packages I used years ago (simply/ 
accpac?) would prompt you to set the "session date" when you ran it/ 
logged on.  The offered default was the current system date (simply  
hit return and it was yours).   This allowed you to change the date  
for initial data entry during that session.  I cannot recall if each  
new transaction defaulted to the selected session date of the date of  
the previously submitted transaction.

Roy


On 13-Apr-2007, at 04:37, Peter Houppermans wrote:

> I'm with the developers on this.
>
> I can see why you're asking it, but the code impact is that every  
> single
> date entry field will have to carry a conditional with matching config
> file entry, which is a lot of extra work and quite a potential for a
> typo to sneak in - for a target audience yet to be defined..
>
> One question, though.  I know it's not quite as handy, but won't
> cut-n-paste help you?
>
> Alternatively, get a keyboard macro installed such as AutoHotkey
> (http://www.autohotkey.com/), although I'm personally very wary of
> keyboard things sitting between me and where money or privacy lives (I
> don't use a wireless keyboard for the same reason :-).  Remap a  
> function
> key and away you go..