Extended memo information

[jraehl at raehls.org]

Is there a way to popup a window to edit the Notes field information in the second line of the transaction register, similar to the Notes field in the New Invoice form.  I like to record all sorts of information about the transaction: method of payment, payee contacts, warranty, rebate, when received/due/mailed/posted, etc.  A one-line memo field is insufficient.

A Windows workaround is to double-click the memo field to select, ctrl-C, DEL to delete original text, start Notepad, ctrl-V, edit the text, range-select, ctrl-C, ctrl-V to original memo field.  Lots of steps and time.

A more elegant suggestion would be a check-format form similar to New Invoice.  This form, when completed, would fill in corresponding transaction register fields (and handle the confusing debit/credit postings).  The Notes would be similar to what is in New Invoice.  The old Parsons Money-Counts program has such a feature.

Jim Raehl

> well, at the transaction level there is the "memo" field. and you can 
> have a memo for each split as well as the whole transaction...

> the others don't exist so far as I know.

> A

>> Gregory Novak wrote:
>> It's becoming clear to me that I'd like a way to associate extended
>> information to a transaction in Gnucash.  This could be as simple as a
>> little icon on each ledger line that, when clicked, brings up a little
>> text field where one can type a bit of information.  Hit "ok", and
>> then the next time you click the icon you'll see what you previously
>> typed.  It's also easy to see how this could be used to attach
>> extended information to specific accounts, or to the whole set of
>> accounts.  
>> 
>> Info attached to transactions could be used to notate things like "Joe
>> owed me $30 and I owed him $20, so this $10 settles our debt."  Info
>> attached to accounts could be used for things like: "When the big
>> deposit clears, remember to transfer part of it to some other
>> account."  And info attached to the entire tree of accounts could be
>> for things like "In June, I spent too much on widgets.  Make sure that
>> doesn't happen in July."
>> 
>> It seems likely that someone has already thought of this, but perusing
>> the menus didn't reveal anything to serve this purpose.  So that's the
>> question: does this already exist?  If not... would someone care to
>> point me in the right direction as far as implementing it?  (no
>> promises, but if it's not too hard I might be willing.)
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Greg
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