Setting a label on bitcoin-qt changes the label of all unlabeled transactions #21057

issue surak opened this issue on February 1, 2021
  1. surak commented at 6:39 PM on February 1, 2021: none

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    <!-- Describe the issue -->

    Expected behavior

    When selecting one transaction, and choosing "Edit Label", it changes the label of every single transaction which didn't have a label previously.

    Actual behavior

    What happens is the aforementioned effect - all transactions get such label

    <img width="325" alt="Screen Shot 2021-02-01 at 19 33 19" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/878399/106502247-6cffc080-64c4-11eb-9b9e-df5ceb2e128e.png">

    <img width="246" alt="Screen Shot 2021-02-01 at 19 33 36" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/878399/106502415-9ddff580-64c4-11eb-890f-3c8ed68570b7.png">

    ** Expected behavior **

    As one clicks one transaction and it says "edit label", I would expect that the label is transaction-related, not per receiving address. Either the GUI is misleading in the description or it's not behaving as it should.

    To reproduce

    Choose one transaction. Choose edit label with mouse right-button. All transactions to that receiving address will change to such label.

    System information

    Bitcoin-QT 0.21.0 from bitcoin.org

    Mac OS Big Sur, whatever version came out last week

  2. surak added the label Bug on Feb 1, 2021
  3. jarolrod commented at 7:31 PM on February 1, 2021: member

    There is a GUI Repo here: https://github.com/bitcoin-core/gui. Do you mind closing this and re-opening this issue in the GUI Repo?

  4. hebasto commented at 9:19 PM on February 1, 2021: member

    @surak A label is an address' property, rather then individual transaction's one. If all affected transactions are associated with the single address, the described behavior is expected.

  5. MarcoFalke added the label Feature on Feb 2, 2021
  6. MarcoFalke removed the label Bug on Feb 2, 2021
  7. MarcoFalke commented at 9:55 AM on February 2, 2021: member

    Closing as this is an expected feature

  8. MarcoFalke closed this on Feb 2, 2021
  9. sipa commented at 9:59 AM on February 2, 2021: member

    I think the issue here is not how it works, but the fact that it is misleading. Perhaps it's worth reopening something of that nature in the GUI repo?

  10. MarcoFalke commented at 10:03 AM on February 2, 2021: member

    See also #5905

  11. surak commented at 1:44 PM on February 2, 2021: none

    @sipa is correct. GUI is misleading. https://github.com/bitcoin-core/gui/issues/209

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