In the chart of accounts, it is not possible from the UI to change root nodes (neither delete nor rename work).
A note for this is present. However, renaming the root nodes (and even deleting) would be handy when setting up the chart of accounts. Observed in ERPNExt v10.0.6 (if I remember correctly, this was possible in the past).
We found a workaround by deleting using bench mysql. But in my opinion, at least the Administrator should be able to do this (I agree that the broad user basis should not do this).
We experienced the same thing too since upgrade to V10. We have reported this to frappe support team and they’re doing a fix.
Another thing we found out is that when we import chart of accounts by Data Import Tool, we keep getting error parent not found even though the parent is in the row above the child. Both are group node (folder). Maybe one of Frappe team can confirm if this is supposed to be like this?
All you need to do is delete the root node in the excel/csv file and it will import fine and make sure the parent in the child nodes is named exactly as what’s in the CoA otherwise it will fail as well.
yup @saidsl. That’s what we did, input root node manually from tree view and use excel file to import. We failed in the beginning, my bad, found out that we should leave the ID columns empty because it’s inserting new records.
Correction: this is not a bug, “parent not found” error is because we didn’t leave the ID column empty.
So conclusion:
root node could not be created in V10 (fixed already)
root node cannot be deleted or renamed (still being fixed, not sure if already fixed or not)