I'm on Ventura, so maybe the environment is relevant since a previous
post mentioned things being different on Monterrey than I experience. I
just tried 5.3-1 again with my file, notes don't autofill. I tried
5.2-1 with my file, notes don't autofill. I tried 5.1-2 with my file,
notes DO autofill. I tried 5.1-2 with your file in the Checking account
and "Note how the value match can tell the difference between USD22 and
C$22" did autofill. I tried 5.3-1 with your file and the same note
didn't autofill in the same account. I guess that narrows it down a
fair amount (breakage in 5.2-1+ on Ventura 13.3.1(a)). Should I open a
bug report and submit your file with it?
On 6/30/23 1:03 PM, Vincent Dawans wrote:
The notes and splits are populating from the autofill for me so far,
including in this attached test file. Hence those experiencing this
feature not working are definitely hitting a bug somewhere (bug or
whatever else you want to call it). There certainly was no
intentional change in that behavior that I am aware of.
The challenge now is to figure out what is particular about the
situations in which the problem is occurring and how to replicate it
so the developers can find the origin of the problem. Typically being
able to reproduce the error is often more difficult than fixing it
(figuring out the diagnosis is harder than providing the cure). For
those willing to help with this, one first step could be to create a
test file and see whether the behavior exists there as well. If it
does, it might be related to your larger PC environment, if it doesn't
it might be related to something more specific to your datafile. That
would guide what to do as a second step. Alternatively you are welcome
to use my test file attached to this email; the data is random, typed
over type as I am testing various things with it, which explains some
of the strange descriptions, but there is nothing personal or valuable
in that file data-wise and you can do whatever test you need on it for
testing. It has US and Canadian dollar transactions as a way to test
multicurrency features but it's not relevant to this issue.
Sincerely,
Vincent Dawans
On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 9:18 AM Dustin Henning <[email protected]> wrote:
My notes populated automatically on 5.0, they didn't on 5.3. I
downgraded to 5.0 and they do again. The pop-up list works the
same for
me on 5.0 and 5.3 except for the added option to disable it. I
wouldn't
want to disable it unless I got the old behavior back, but the old
behavior seems to clearly be going away seeing as how it was removed
from another field in 5.3. The reason my description field has large
lists is because of previous changes to the OFX/QFX importer meaning
that I manually populate that field for certain accounts now while it
was automatically populated previously. My understanding is that
behavioral change wasn't the work of the GunCash dev team, so it
is what
it is. While it also affects my notes field, the automatic typing
in my
notes field is more similar to the automatic typing in your
description
field. I basically use them for the opposite of what you do due
to how
the OFX/QFX importer worked (and technically would probably still
do the
same now, it's just more work with the new importer behavior).
That having been said, the OFX/QFX importer behavior actually
improved
slightly in 5.3 when compared to 5.0, so maybe I should try 5.1
and 5.2
to see if I can find something in between to stick with for as
long as
possible.
On 6/29/23 4:18 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
> I just upgraded to 5.3-1 on Monterey and it works fine.
>
> I did have to accept the suggestion from the list and then Tab
but it
> populated with an autofill of memo, amounts, et cetera from my last
> transaction with the same Description.
>
> I'll add here that I use GnuCash with old paper and pen habits,
that
> is, I use the 'Description' field as strictly a 'Payee/Payor'
field.
> Actual descriptive information I put in the Notes and/or Memo
fields.
> (Notes for the whole transaction, Memos for things specific to a
> split) That usage greatly simplifies my Description list. It may
not
> suit everyone of course.
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
>
> On 6/29/23 10:42 AM, Dustin Henning wrote:
>> And it's worse. Guess I REALLY should have read the release
notes.
>> Now notes doesn't autofiill the old way anyymore so I have to
>> manually type even more. My search still isn't begins with,
either,
>> so my list is still extremely long. I guess maybe they missed
that
>> on Mac. At least everybody else is happy with the
improvements. I'm
>> used to being an outlier, so it is what it is.
>
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