`Balance' dialog box.. what is it for.

[Derek Atkins]

File two RFEs..  :)

-derek

Dale Alspach <alspach at math.okstate.edu> writes:

> This is really a request for an enhancement, but I thought I would float it
> here. Gnucash really uses the last simmilar transaction description as a match, but I
> would prefer to have a default for a particular merchant/description.
> What happens is that I may buy groceries at ABC Market every week, but then
> one week I also buy a small appliance. I enter a split for this and the
> next week gnucash remembers the transaction with the extra split instead of
> the typical transaction.
>
> One could go the AI or statistical route and have gnucash learn what is
> typical, but that is a lot of overhead. A simpler approach would be to have
> a "make this transaction the default" button  that the user could hit to
> stop gnucash from replacing typical transactions with sporadic ones.
>
> On an earlier post: I would also prefer the default to be balance manually.
>
> Dale Alspach
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