Re: [SL] Once an item is added, the income account cannot be changed.

[Armaghan S. <sa...@le...>]

Here is how the whole thing works:

1. You can edit the account links only if there is no transaction
referencing this part.

2. If you use the 'Change up' menu, you can edit the accounts links.
However a new part with same part number is created with you save.
This might add to the confusion because now there are two parts with
same number.

3. You can mark a part obsolete and it will not appear in parts
lookups during transaction entry. To mark a part obsolete, its onhand
should be zero. You can add a new part again with same part number but
with different account links. You can correct the account postings for
past transactions for that part using a GL transaction.

The 3rd point seems the best way to change any account inaccuracies
without mucking around with existing transactions.

Hope this helps. Let me know if I am not clear.

On our sql-ledger hosting, we can allow the user to change the account
links any time he or she likes to. There is a reposting script which,
when run, corrects all past transactions.

Regards
Armaghan

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