Toma, "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."
I think this is how Auto-Split and the Basi Ledger modes are intended to work. Display single lines for the unselected transactions with the totals of all splits of a transaction to that account and automatically open to display the splits when a particular split is actually selected in Auto-Split mode. I am pretty sure this is what the developers would have originally intended to do but either oversight or a limitation provided by the display libraries functionality has resulted in displaying each split on a separate line in Basic Ledger mode and in Auto-Split mode. I don't know which is the case without investigating it in the code base which unfortunately I do not have time available to do at the moment (tax time and mid renovations). If no-one else looks at the problem I will take a look when I am free again which is unlikely to be until later this year or early next year. On Sun, 2025-08-24 at 15:37 -0600, Tom Route-36 wrote: > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
