On Sep 18, 2011, at 3:10 PM, Alex Aycinena wrote: > John, > > On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 4:43 PM, John Ralls <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> There are already two fields in Splits which are available for random use: >> Action and Memo. You could set up your report so that if the Transaction's >> Num field is blank but the Split's Action field isn't and has a numeric >> value, the latter is displayed. >> >> Doing something like that in the Register is perilous, though -- regardless >> of whether you make a new field in the split record or not. The problem is >> that when viewed in unsplit mode, the user won't know whether the number in >> the Num column came from the transaction or the split -- and if she edits >> it, the program won't know whether it should edit the split value or insert >> the number (though I suppose you could force a split view in that case to >> make it obvious). >> >> Regards, >> John Ralls >> >> > I was thinking of giving preference options to the user - one could be > to not use (no change to GUI, wouldn't even need to tab over it); > another could be to display it on the split line (to the left of the > 'action' so there would be no confusion); a third would be show it > where the current 'num' is and move the transaction 'num' to the > second line (with proper labelling - this is how I would use it). What > to update on data entry would follow from this. I would add > documentation so that this would be clearly explained. A selection in > imports would be needed to decide which field to populate.
Alex, Sounds like a good argument to just use the Action field for your numbers. Except for option 3, no changes required to anything except your custom reports; option 3 can be implemented as easily with Action as with a new field. Or are you already using the Action field for something else? Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
