Check printing is missing a split entry.

[Tommy Trussell]

On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 5:01 PM, Mike Alexander <mta at umich.edu> wrote:

> --On December 5, 2013 9:35:49 AM -0500 Dennis Shimer <dshimer at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>  Anybody interested in taking my sample .gnucash file and .chk file and
>> giving it a run?  I can't believe I can do this on 3 computers and 3
>> OSs with 2 chk files and 2 gnucash files.
>>
>> I have to be doing something really basic and dumb. Or it's my eyes,
>> I even got out a calculator and added the splits to make sure
>> something was missing, not trusting myself to count to 4 splits (or
>> 10 on the more complex sample)
>>
>>
> You're not doing anything wrong.  I added a comment to the bug you
> commented on (<https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=653594>)
> explaining what I found.
>
> The last split is not printed in the list of splits.  I suspect this may
> be intentional because often the last split is the one that controls the
> value printed on the check (if there is a single credit to a single
> checking account and several debits to various expense accounts).  This is
> not the case for your transaction.  I think a better way to do it would be
> to print all the splits except whichever one is the "main" split for the
> check, i.e., the one from which the check's value is being taken.
>
> Unless someone thinks this is a bad idea, that's what I'll do.  At the
> same time, I'll change it to make sure that the split from which the value
> is taken is really a bank account split.  Right now that isn't the case and
> you can (usually accidentally, I suspect) print a check for only one of the
> expenses covered by the transaction.
>
>              Mike
>
>
I was reading this discussion (and the bug report). It sounds like a basic
single check for a single transaction with multiple splits wasn't always
putting all the appropriate splits on the voucher. (My interest was piqued
because I have been wondering if I could modify a similar check format to
print a deposit slip -- with a deposit slip form at the top and the items
for deposit listed below.)

HOWEVER back to the check voucher ... Mike Alexander suggested (in the bug
report) the use-case where someone might generate two checks for a single
transaction. I tried to imagine what this would look like...

The two cases I imagined were 1) paying for a single set of expenses using
multiple bank accounts OR 2) paying multiple payees for a single set of
items.

SO you might receive a box of widgets and you pay 2/3 of the total amount
to payee 1 and 1/3 to payee 2. The vouchers for both checks would need to
represent the amount going to both checks so the amounts would total
correctly.

Similarly if you receive a box of widgets and pay 1/3 of the total amount
from bank account 1 and 1/3 from bank account 2, and 1/3 from bank account
3. Again, on the voucher you would want to represent the amount going to
all three checks so the totals add up.

I felt compelled to spell this out because it wasn't immediately
understandable to me until I did. I haven't worked with the vouchers so I
don't know how multiple checks and splits for a single transaction are
identified, textually. Should such a voucher use debit and credit columns
or positive and negative numerals? Maybe this is already specified in a
design document somewhere.



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