Can I add a Tag for each transaction?

[John Ralls]

On Jul 28, 2012, at 6:04 PM, __ <tereque at gmail.com> wrote:

>> From: Tom Peterson <thomas.tap.peterson at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: Can I add a Tag for each transaction?
>> Message-ID: <50116A79.2020301 at gmail.com>
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>> On 07/26/2012 09:24 AM, John Ralls wrote:
>>> On Jul 26, 2012, at 6:52 AM, Chan.pat93 <Chan.pat93 at yahoo.com.hk> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I am using Moneydance and planning to move to Gnucash.
>>>> 
>>>> One of the features I like most in Moneydance is that for each
>> transaction,
>>>> apart from memo entry, description entry (i.e Payee) and Category entry
>>>> (i.e. other side of the double entry), moneydance also have one
>> additional
>>>> entry named "Tag" so that I can add more information for further
>> analysis
>>>> (which is very important for me).
>>>> 
>>>> I read the user guide of Gnucash and note that there is no such "Tag"
>>>> function. Am I correct? Is there any function in Gnucash which gives
>> similar
>>>> effect of the "Tag" function in Moneydance?
>>>> 
>> I molest the NUM field and use it as a means of tagging transactions. I
>> specifically use TBD so that I can search for it. I use TBD to note
>> transactions that still need to be completed (e.g. pay credit card, get
>> final mutual fund sale/purchase prices, etc).
>> 
>> I'd prefer a separate and convenient field but my approach at least
>> solves my problem.
>> 
>> 
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>> 
>> From: "Chan.pat93" <Chan.pat93 at yahoo.com.hk>
>> Subject: Re: Can I add a Tag for each transaction?
>> 
>> Although the Num field is not meant to be used for this purpose, you make a
>> very good suggest which may solve part of my problem.
>> ... Look forward to hear the view of other Gnucash?s user on how to solve
>> this.
>> 
> 
> I have figured the 'Num' molestation method as well. It's a workaround
> which somehow is workable but it would be cool if that wasn't the endpoint
> in this matter. It would be much greater to have the mentioned tags to tag
> things AND then be able to use the 'Num' for sorting transactions by
> transactions # for example.

Use Action or Memo on the expense split then. They're both searchable. 

Or do it the right way, with a separate account for each person in each expense category, as Liz described.

We're not likely to add yet another field to the 5 already available.

Regards,
John Ralls