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

[Robert Heller]

At Thu, 21 Sep 2006 12:30:26 -0400 Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote:

> 
> 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.

Yes, this actually does make sense.

> 
> 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.

OK, it *sounds* like something is broken somehow in the 2.0.1 release.

> 
> -derek
> 

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