Possible problem with splits

[Heather J. Daley]

Well, I was in the middle of writing a reply when Derek already replied. 
I memo splits all the time and they work fine.  But his bringing to 
attention the difference between Description and Memo seems to be the 
whole thing.  If your Description is "Deposit" then you'll see in account 
4 that this transaction was a part of a deposit.  When you open split 
view, you can see your memo about the details.  I'm actually amazed that 
you've never put a memo on a split before - if I didn't do that I'd have 
no idea why I split the transaction in the first place...

-Heather

On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Mike or Penny Novack wrote:

> Not sure if I am perhaps doing something wrong, first time I tried to
> "memo" a split. So I tried a couple ways, editing the transaction (where
> split) and just the split portion itself (from the other direction) and
> I can't seem to make it right.
>
> This is what I observe (and what persists no matter how edited)
>
> date        main memo                                         total amt
>                                  account 1
>  amt 1
>                                  account 2
>                     amt2
>                                  account 3
>                     amt 2
>                memo 4      account 4
>             amt 4
>
> BUT --- if after entering the transaction, if I open account 4 I see the
> MAIN memo entry (not the one pertaining to just this item). If I edit it
> here and then go back to the account where the split is, the main memo
> has been changed to the text of "memo 4" (the text entered on the line
> where memo 4 was unaltered).
>
> Obviously wrong. This was a bank deposit where the total represented a
> number of different income accounts, membership and donations
> reimbursements from national PLUS a donation received from a group for
> which we gave a presentation (we don't charge speakers FEES, but
> donations when we speak before a group not unusual). I was trying to
> memo this item "whom from" as useful information (speak there again if
> they ask). Shouldn't keep trying to make that "deposit" (the main memo)
> or change the main memo to "Russell Grange #73". Proper behavior would
> be to treat the main memo text as a default, showing it in the memo
> field of the other account if/f there was no specific memo entry.
>
> 1) Has this been reported before?
> 2) If not, next step? Remember developers -- I'm a retired senior
> analyst who used to get paid to design/write/test/debug LARGE financial
> systems --- so not out of line to say "your baby, Mike"
>
> Announcing -- now official. At our board meeting Jan 19th I reported
> that the parallel test was successful and that I was satisfied with
> Gnucash and since available for under Windows and Macs (I could run
> under a 'nix, but I won't be treasurer forever), I was suggesting that
> our organization use GnuCash. Approved.
>
>
>
>
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Heather, full of Joy


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