Notes-Memo confusion

[David Carlson]

On 4/12/2011 9:26 AM, Carpet Nailz wrote:
>
> I'm trying to create a custom transaction report and GnuCash is messing
> it up with some sort of memo/notes confusion.
>
> I have entries created in my VISA account that show "xxxx" in the Notes
> fields. This also shows up in the Notes field of the expense account
> entry.
>
> But when I create a transaction report of these expenses, something
> different, 'yyyy' shows up instead. The problem is that entry is the
> same for every entry on the report from this payee, effectively
> obfuscating the different Notes explanation of what the payment was for,
> which appear in the Notes field of the original transaction entries.
>
> Trying to figure this out, I did a Edit->Find for the Payee. This shows
> a field called "Memo" rather than "Notes" and it has 'yyyy' in it!?
>
> Where does this "Memo" value come from, since it's in neither the VISA
> entry nor the Expense entry?
>
> So I though I'd redo the report by unchecking "Memo" on the Display list
> for the transaction report and leaving "Notes" checked. 
>
> Well this doesn't work--now I get neither.
>
> What's going on and how can I get the right "Notes" in my report?
>
> Thanks.
>
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I recently noticed that for split transactions, the "memo" that can be
associated to each split line can be printed in certain reports, but I
have not had time to figure out how this works either.  I too would like
to see a clarification.


David Carlson
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