Thanks for the tip about hotkeys, that's quite useful (I was longing for a way
to toggle splits for a long time).
Best regards,
Platon Pronko
On 2021-11-07 16:16, david whiting wrote:
I've set up hotkeys for the different views that gnucash has and I
find it helpful for this sort of thing. It allows me to quickly switch
between different views.
ctrl+1: basic view
ctrl+2: auto-split view (all splits for current transaction)
ctrl+3: transaction journal view (all splits for all transactions)
ctrl+4: toggle double line view (to see transaction notes)
Here's how to set it up:
https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2020-August/092757.html
David
On Sun, 7 Nov 2021 at 12:09, Platon Pronko <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi!
I currently find it a bit difficult to handle multi-split transactions that include several
"splits" going to the same account. For example, if I'm buying some computer hardware I
want to record the prices of each part for later reference, but all those parts are recorded in
"Hardware" account - thus several splits go into the same account.
In default "Basic Ledger" view this is shown in a confusing way - each split
gets its own row, but each row displays the same transaction description (not the name of
the individual part).
For the moment I explored several different solutions to this situation:
1. Record each item (hardware part in this example) as a separate transaction.
This solves the issue with display since I can now put each item name into the
description field. But now I have multiple transactions my credit card account,
which would make reliable reconciliation almost impossible.
2. Use the "Transaction Journal" view. It handles this situation a bit better than
"Basic Ledger" - the rows are not duplicated. But it show all the splits, even the ones
not related to the currently viewed account, and the simple two-split transactions start taking 3
rows each, which is too verbose, especially since this is a global setting.
3. Show "memo" as a separate column in "Basic Ledger" view (I've attached the
code patch that does it, applies to version 4.8). This works quite nicely - simple transactions
keep using one row, complex transactions display only the splits related to the current register
and each split shows its memo right in the register. However this is a code customization, won't
help anybody else with similar problems, and maintaining it is going to be more difficult than
built-in solutions.
Do you have any suggestions about a better way of handling this?
Best regards,
Platon Pronko_______________________________________________
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