Split Problems

Dave Peticolas dave@krondo.com
Wed, 03 Jan 2001 17:01:23 -0800


 writes:
> Has anyone experienced the following problem and is there more intuitive way
> of doing this?
> 
> I entered a transaction that I split into two items. I bought something and
> also withdrew cash so I wanted the purchase to being recorded for the
> appropriate category and the cash to be put into the cash account.  On the
> next entry for the same store the 'auto fill-in'  put in a split but this
> time I didn't want to split because I was not receiving any money.  I
> attempted to delete the cash item line but that failed it always left the
> 'account' field with 'cash' in it and the amount blank.  I also did a delete
> on the transaction and selected to delete the splits I then specified the
> transfer account and when I hit enter the transaction disappeared.
> 
> The only way I was able to get rid of the split was to type in the
> Description and instead of hitting 'tab' I clicked the 'transfer' field and
> changed the account.
> 
> I would think that there has to be a better way to do this.  I'm using
> version 1.4.7 (installed with Mandrake 7.2 distribution).  I'm going to
> upgrade to 1.4.9 today, but thought I would report my findings.

Could you test this with 1.4.9? I can't duplicate the original
problem (trying to delete a single split), but I may be doing
it a different way than you did.

dave