Settings — Miscellaneous

Overview

The Miscellaneous tab of the Settings dialog collects settings that do not belong to a single ledger or backup workflow.

Message Display

Unchecking a message suppresses that prompt. The underlying action still occurs, but without a confirmation or warning dialog.

Setting	Description
Envelope watchdog alert	Shows a warning when an envelope balance drops below its watchdog limit.
Altered amount in Allocation Plan	Shows a notification when the Allocation Plan normalizes cell values after you change an amount.
Import checkpoint confirmation	Shows a confirmation when a checkpoint is created before an import.

Other Settings

Setting	Description
Create Checkpoint Before Import	Automatically saves a checkpoint of your data file before any import operation. This provides a restore point if the import produces unexpected results.
Enable Account Transfers in Multiples	Allows Regular Multiple transactions to include account-transfer rows. Each account-transfer row moves part of the transaction amount to another account and reduces the main transaction amount.
Show zero amounts as a dash (-)	Displays zero amounts as a dash instead of a numeric zero.
Use Today's Date for New Transactions	Sets the date of a new transaction to today's date. When off, a new transaction uses the date of the last transaction you entered.

Search Engines

Select the web search engine used when Principal Plan opens a web search in your default browser.

Engine	Description
Bing	Searches using Microsoft Bing.
DuckDuckGo	Searches using DuckDuckGo.
Google	Searches using Google.
Yahoo	Searches using Yahoo.

A Defaults button resets all Miscellaneous tab settings to their factory values.