I also like the idea of having a separate user-editable list/table for
each account with Payees. When we input a transaction in with a payee
not in the list it could ask us if we'd like to save it to the list and
then, if yes, it could allow us to input other data such as the payee
address.
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Eric Chapman
GnuCash 4.13 on MacOS 13.1 Ventura running on 2018 Mac Mini (3.2 GHz 6-Core
Intel Core i7)
On 6/6/23 12:12, Sherman Yoder wrote:
Populating the list from a separate table would be a splendid idea,
especially if the table could include the payee addresses so the
address could print on the check without typing it in each time.
Sherman
On 6/6/2023 11:53 AM, David Carlson wrote:
Adrien,
Who are you asking to provide an example?
My point was that the manual editing method that you suggested couldn't be
used if the existing descriptions must be kept.
In my data file that is often the case.
I agree that there is a lot of 'noise' in the drop down list of suggestions
caused by searching existing transactions to populate this list.
I think that such a list would best be populated from an independent table
which would be entirely new to GnuCash. It could be called 'Payees' and it
should be independent for each account.
On Tue, Jun 6, 2023 at 10:07 AM Adrien Monteleone <
[1][email protected]> wrote:
How would you envision this would work in a case where you want to edit
an existing transaction that has a description which you've removed from
the list for new transactions? Since every transaction as it is being
entered is a 'new' transaction, where does this cutoff happen?
Maybe an example could illustrate this use case?
Regards,
Adrien
On 6/6/23 9:32 AM, David Carlson wrote:
The problem with the solution that Adrien suggests is that there is a
real
possibility that the existing descriptions may be correct for existing
transactions but inappropriate for new transactions. I think there is no
solution as long as the current method is used to populate the list, so
we
must live with it.
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