Help -- extra (blank) transaction in a split!

[Derek Atkins]

Quoting Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com>:

>> Or.... which register are you using?  It wont let you delete the split
>> tied to the current register.  So if you're trying from the Imbalance
>> account, that's your problem.   Open a different register and do it
>> from there.
>
> I am doing it from an account other than the Imbalance account
> (actually I also tried it there and got an error popup telling me I
> can't do that [which I understood!]).
>
> So here is *exactly* what I am doing, step by step:

Okay..

> 1) click on the split, highlighting it.

I presume you mean "click on the Transaction..."

> 2) Select 'Split' on the toolbar, which opens the split lines.

Okay, with you so far.

> 3a) If I leave the original line highlighted (main transaction line)
> and right click on the 'offending' line and select "Delete
> Transaction", I get a warning dialog, which if I accept, causes the
> *whole* transaction to vanish, including a second copy of the split. For
> some reason GnuCash is creating two transactions for these splits, which
> are locked together.  One transaction deposits the PayPal cash back and
> the other withdraws the actual expenditure, otherwise the two
> transactions are identical.

Yeah, the right click doesn't change the focus, so in this case the
"Delete Transaction" really means "Delete Transaction".   Also, gnucash
is not creating two transactions -- it's ONE transaction that happens to
have TWO SPLITS in the current account.  Notice the "Paypal Debit" for $11.06
and then "Paypal Debit" for -$10.95.  That's why it shows up twice.

The register view shows you the transactions associated with EACH SPLIT
into the account.   If you have a transaction with multiple splits into
an account then the account register will show you that same transaction
multiple times, once for each split in the account.

There's an open RFE to merge multiple splits from one transaction into a
single display line in basic-ledger mode.

> OR
>
> 3b) If I highlight the offending line (selecting with the left button)
> and then right click on it and select "Delete Transaction", nothing at
> all happens.

When I do this it pops up a dialog that says:

  "Delete the split '(no memo)' from the Transaction 'Test'"

and when I click [Delete Split] it goes away.  This happens properly for
me both in SVN Trunk and the 2.0 branch.   I haven't tried the actual 2.0.1
release because I dont have a build of the tarball handy to test.  But I
can say that following your instructions it works for me.

I'm sorry, I don't know what to tell you.  I can't reproduce your
problem.

-derek

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