Bug or feature?

[Donald Allen]

On 8/27/07, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
> What you're seeing is the addition of a new "blank split", which
> is always visible in an editable, expanded transaction.  The idea
> is that if you're working on a transaction (i.e. it has the focus)
> then gnucash will create and display a blank split so you can add
> new splits to the transaction.
>
> Instead of double-clicking, you should single-click to get focus and
> THEN double click.

Yes, that's exactly what I've been doing to get around this. Josh
suggested a different workaround that I hadn't figured out for myself,
using the down-arrow key, that I think is more efficient for me.

Thanks for the response.

/Don

>
> -derek
>
> Quoting Donald Allen <donaldcallen at gmail.com>:
>
> > Sometimes I make payments to a particular vendor that are attributable
> > to one of several expense accounts. My heating oil supplier is an
> > example. Most of the payments to them are charged to the "heating oil"
> > expense account. But, once/year, I have them service my oil burner,
> > the payment for which is charged to the "heating system maintenance"
> > account.  The problem I want to describe flows from my own
> > carelessness: after entering a payment for the oil-burner service,
> > attributed to the correct expense account, I entered subsequent
> > payments for heating oil, and because the description is the same as
> > as the maintenance payment, automatic completion fills out the
> > transaction with the maintenance account on the debit side, which I
> > failed to notice, multiple times. So I accumulated a bunch of
> > transactions for heating oil that were attributed to the wrong expense
> > account.
> >
> > To fix this, I did a search on the name of heating oil supplier, which
> > correctly turned up all the transactions involving them. Now I want to
> > double-click (to select) on the (correct) debit side of an older
> > transaction, copy it (ctrl-c) and then double-click on the debit sides
> > of the incorrect transactions, one by one, and paste the correct
> > expense account into them. The trouble is that when I double-click on
> > the source of the correct account, a blank line appears immediately
> > after it, shifting all subsequent transactions down by one line. Then
> > when I go to double-click on the debit side of an incorrect
> > transaction, the extra line disappears from after the (earlier) source
> > transaction and appears after the destination transaction. This shifts
> > the latter transaction up by one line after my first click and the
> > second click is therefore in the wrong place (the credit side). So,
> > for what I am trying to do, the UI is making my life more difficult.
> > Before I submit a bug report, I'd ask one of the developers to explain
> > the rationale for this behavior (the addition of a line following a
> > selected transaction), since there may be other considerations that
> > justify it.
> >
> > /Don
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