Re: Default dates on transaction entry screens

[david <..hidden..>]

I want to add my vote for some function that either remembers the last
date entered, or remembers a variable parameter for entry date... 

Personally I think the last date entered is preferable, since I'm
forever entering data in date sequence.

When I switched from MYOB to SL, this was one feature of MYOB that I
really missed.

On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 22:28 +0100, ..hidden.. wrote:
> I like option B.  The session date could default to the current system  
> date on login, but also remember the last date entered for a  
> transaction, and use that as the default for the next transaction.
> 
> I will often enter a batch of transactions at one sitting, comprising  
> 3 or 4 different transaction dates.  This feature would be very useful  
> for me.  If I had a penny for every time I've entered a transaction on  
> the wrong date and had to reverse and re-do, I'd have... £2.37.
> 
> Cheers,
> Richard
> 
> Quoting 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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