Re: Default dates on transaction entry screens

[David Tangye <..hidden..>]

On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 07:39 -0300, Roy Nicholl wrote:
> 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.
That's a similar idea, except its a bit of the kludge to virtually
transport you to a past date in entirety, when all you want to do is
enter some transactions for a past range of dates, eg 'catching up a bit
on the books'. You should be able to still run reports, etc and not have
all dates in the app as though you were doing it another day. Actually
our security-conscious guys might look dimly at this sort of facility,
although an audit trail of the date change might placate them.

Further discussion might be best at sourceforge: [ 1700856 ]
User-preference for default date value in data
entry screens
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1700856&group_id=175965&atid=875353