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

[Robert Heller]

At Thu, 21 Sep 2006 13:31:02 -0400 Dan Black <philippines at charter.net> wrote:

> 
> On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 12:50 -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I am running 2.0.1 and it works just as Derek described.  Have you
> possibly in the past, checked the box on the popup about "Remember and
> Don't ask me again"?

I don't think so.  If I did, how would I undo it?

> 
> Dan
> 
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