multiple display of the same transaction

[David Carlson]

On 4/4/2012 1:20 PM, gnucash-user at rainbowdreams.com wrote:
>> When a transaction that has more than one split for the
>> same account is viewed in that account's register, one
>> sees the transaction displayed multiple times.
> My frequently used scenario for this is for detailed expense tracking. Say I 
> spend $100 at my local purveyor of music and video and I buy 5 DVD's for $20 
> each. I could just record this as "$100 spent to Expenses:DVDs" but it's nice 
> to also take a little extra time and get an inventory too at the same time. If 
> I do it in one transaction with splits, then when I look in Expenses:DVDs I 
> have 5 splits recorded with the right amounts but the description is the same 
> for all of them ("Local purveyor of music and video") rather than the split 
> description of "Really cool movie" or "TV show I'm ashamed to admit 
> purchasing". That's with the Basic Ledger view. Journal view of course shows 
> me all of the splits and not just the splits posted to the account being 
> viewed.
>
> My easy solution has been to create a "Line item expenses" account to record 
> the $100 spent at "Local purveyor of music and video" followed by 5 separate 
> transactions for the individual items into the Expenses:DVDs account (and 
> whereever else the money goes.). It's an extra step, but gives me nice 
> descriptions in the expense account. It also gets around the "annoyance" of 
> trying to work around remembered splits which seem to never quite be close 
> enough to what I want to reuse yet useful enough to not want to clear and 
> start over.
>
> This has actually annoyed me enough in the past to have experimented with the 
> code (2.2? maybe 2.4?) to try to change the register view to show the split 
> description when there was one and the transaction description when there 
> wasn't one. I think I got it mostly working, but still had some issues and 
> don't remember if I got an option created to let user decide which way to 
> show.
>
> Maybe I should track the code down and try to get it working with latest code 
> ... then post to gnucash-devel? someone can advise on fixing the horrible 
> hatchet job I did.  <grin>
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Now we have two users who actually go to the 'child' account and are
disappointed by what they find there.  That is a 100% increase.

David Carlson
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