"Action" tab

[Maf. King]

On Wednesday 14 October 2009 04:26:28 Doug Laidlaw wrote:
> I have never really understood the column immediately to the right of the
> Date.  Using the "Auto-split Register" view there is a field marked "Num." 
> I normally use that for check numbers, but a recent thread suggested that
> it should be for a transaction number.
>
> Then there are the two selection menus on the "detail" lines.  Those used
> to contain options such as I would expect on the line above, "check", etc.,
> but currently, for my checking account, they show only three options more
> appropriate to stock transactions.  I have looked at my Account settings,
> and the account is still a checking account.  Probably, I associated it
> with my stock transactions, instead of having a separate bank account
> specifically for stocks.
>
> Is this how it should be?
>
> Doug.
>

Hi Doug.

I too use the NUM field for Check Number, or I enter DD for a direct debit 
etc.  ISTR that the recent thread was about using the NUM field to force txns 
to appear in a particular order in the register.

AFAIK, the action field is a free-form text entry, with some "suggestions" in 
the drop-down (although I don't generally use it.)

HTH,
Maf.