Re: Default dates on transaction entry screens

[Roy Nicholl <..hidden..>]

Obviously my choice of words to describe the capability was neither  
sufficiently clear nor complete.

Setting a transaction date on a per session basis is no more of a  
kludge than setting a global default ... and neither should have any  
impact on the security of the system [non-repudiation requirements  
should necessitate an internal audit control {i.e. audit trail of  
user actions ... in particular those which affect change on data  
stored in the system} which is internal to the system and beyond the  
reach of the user].

In fact you could probably combine the features of a global, or per  
user, setting that give the user a choice of, say, a) using the  
current, system date, for entry of new transactions; b) the default  
date for new transactions is the date of the last transaction  
inputted into the system; or c) the user is prompted for the  
transaction entry date (i.e. session date) at login.

... just more fuel for discussion,

Roy

On 15-Apr-2007, at 00:59, David Tangye wrote:

> 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
>
>
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