Deleted Transaction Management

[elChapoSing]

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Description

This has already been requested 5 years ago and closed as not relevant :)
I believe there are use cases for it though.
The main example is when you delete transactions by mistakes (e.g. by deleting an account without cleaning up the transactions before, quite common during the setup phase I would venture ?)
You might also want to verify that your rules continue to make sense as time goes by and checking the deleted transactions would allow that if you had setup such rules.

cf https://github.com/orgs/firefly-iii/discussions/6928 or #1940

Solution

There should be 2 actions you can take on deleted transactions

• restore -> revert the deletion
• hard delete -> fully remove all info from the relevant tables so that the transaction can be "replayed"

What are alternatives?

Go into the DB manually
cf https://github.com/orgs/firefly-iii/discussions/6928#discussioncomment-8370526

Additional context

I'm happy to take a stab at it if it can be useful to anyone else !
Would just need some pointers from @JC5 on where they would want this page in the current architecture.

[JC5]

I'll write it down as a feature request, but it's something for the long term. There's not need to pick it up right now.

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