I'm not on the developer's mailing list but I am using Gnucash 1.8.7 and have noticed quite a number of times that I wished memo fields were handled differently. So I'll contribute a suggestion here. Hopefully, it's helpful.
There is both an overall memo for a transaction which shows up in every register in the split. In addition, there is a memo per split. This needs careful handling to be convenient.
1. One choice would be to have simply one memo per split and have that
show up in that register. 2. A second would be to allow both the overall memo and the per split
memo a place in the register when in two line mode. I would like to
see this. 3. If the current state remains, I would very much like to see the
overall memo show up even in one line mode when all splits are
shown. Just make another line appear when the split lines show
up. This makes it far easier to see the overall memo and makes
it always show when one is looking in more detail into a transaction.The other area is how memos show up in reports. A transaction report seems to show only the overall memo and there is no way to even see the per split memo. In some cases I use per split memos for things that need to show up in reports. For example when I keep track of medical expenses I compare per split memos to see that an explanation of benefits from medical insurance covers everything it should cover and each item is a split in the "explanation of benefits transaction"
So maybe it could be an option to show one or the other or both memos.
Thank you,
Bill
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