Comment 4 for bug 2066385

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Shannon Brown (ubuntuoce) wrote :

First, thank you Maxime for your hard work on Homebank.

Thank you for the reference to the Wish/Enhancement:
#2044601 preference to always prompt for a target txn when adding xfer.
I just do simple transfers so never encountered this before and thus my confusion.

I read #2044601 and understand the use case now (thanks for the enhancement tracking number). It looks like a variation on this feature has been part of Homebank for quite some time. The recent change made the behavior default now in 5.8. This is why I never saw it before and thus my confusion after updating to 5.8.

I agree, however, that even when on, I am not seeing anything. Also, the dialogue forces you to Create transaction at that point if there are no transactions. That is, if there are no matching transactions per the new feature, the dialogue might have a Cancel option to just perform the transfer without a target. However, I do NOT use this feature so turning it off is fine for me.

For others who may be encountering this situation involving a new dialogue showing target transactions when doing a Transfer in Homebank 5.8....

You can turn off this new default feature in Homebank 5.8 for Transactions by:
--opening Homebank
--select EDIT...PREFERENCES...TRANSACTIONS
--then scroll down to see Transfer behavior
--then UNCHECK the "Show action for target creation dialogue for Add"
--click OK to save the setting

As Maxime notes, the 5.8 release notes at https://www.gethomebank.org/ChangeLog have the Transfer change noted at::
wish : #2044601 preference to always prompt for a target txn when adding xfer.
This appears a requested wish/enhancement. See the original wish/request use case at https://bugs.launchpad.net/homebank/+bug/2044601

The documentation covers the transfers change at
https://www.gethomebank.org/help/index.html
"HomeBank will check if there is some existing transaction into the target account that match the source transfer and if there is at least one, this dialog will popup and let you choose what to do."