Hi Christopher,
Everyone's comments have been really helpful; and I think I understand
how GnuCash is designed to handle splits now. For my purposes it seems
like using the Transaction Journal view is the way to go. I can see all
the details of my splits, including where I have multiple splits to the
same account. More importantly, when I'm in Transaction Journal mode
and I jump to those accounts I don't see multiple copies of the same
transaction anymore. So all things considered, I think GnuCash will
work pretty well for me as a Transaction Journal.
The one thing that would be a nice option as I mentioned would be the
ability to select a modified Transaction Journal view that essentially
collapses all those splits. So, yes, that would mean hiding data from
the user when that modified view is selected. Admittedly, I'm not a
developer that understands what's involved in creating that. But it
would seem that hiding data in a view would at least be reasonably
doable, not a complete rewrite of the code. It's really just a feature
request.
Tom
On 8/24/2025 10:16 AM, Christopher Lam wrote:
On Sun, 24 Aug 2025 at 15:04, Tom Route-36 <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Separately though, I think I'll also try reporting this as a kind-of-a
bug -- at least in the way that the info is being displayed to the
user.
Perhaps if it's not considered a true bug, maybe the developers
could
consider the issue an enhancement or feature request. Using the
Transaction Journal mode would actually be okay; but it would be
nice if
the user had the OPTION to view the registers in that mode with each
transaction COLLAPSED INTO A SINGLE LINE, at least in the way that it's
displayed.
The difficulty is that the Register view (ie. green/yellow background)
has a lot of data for each transaction and split. Transactions have
date, num, description, doclink. Splits have memo, notes, action,
amount, value, account. And more. The register is inflexible in its
display, but had debugging and feedback from more than two decades of
use. To condense into a single line means hiding data from the user.
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