gnucash-user Digest, Vol 119, Issue 35

David Carlson carlson.dl at sbcglobal.net
Thu Feb 14 15:32:09 EST 2013


On 2/14/2013 11:04 AM, Colin Law wrote:
> On 14 February 2013 16:29, DonM <dm413-gc at intielectronics.com> wrote:
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: gnucash-user Digest, Vol 119, Issue 35
>> From: gnucash-user-request at gnucash.org
>> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
>> Date: 2/14/2013 10:31 AM
>>
>>>> Actually, the memo field is the second line that appears below the
>>>>> description when you are using the the double line (Basic Ledger)view.
>>>>> The field that is associated to split lines is called Notes.  You can
>>>>> see that when you put the curser highlight on a split line and look at
>>>>> the title bar.  This is an important distinction, particularly if you
>>>>> are using business features such as accounts payable, but not so much
>>>>> for most of the rest of us, unless we are doing a search.
>>
>>> It is the other way round in fact (memo vs notes)
>>>
>>> Colin
>>
>> Right. So I stand by my original statement: If I am searching a bank account
>> and specify that I want to look for "memo" fields, then I am inherently
>> looking for a split (memo fields only exist in splits), and I  would expect
>> to find the text.
> You will, but only if you are in the Accounts tab, or on the register
> for the account that the split is allocated to.
>
> Colin
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Now I am back.  Before I sent my incorrect email I had tried what Don
asked for and, like Don reported, I thought that I was unable to find
text in the memo field when starting from an account register.  However,
I had not had my morning coffee, and I got confused when a search for
text in the notes field found the text.  Now, after drinking my coffee
and re-booting my computer I cannot replicate the problem.
I think there may be some circumstances where Don is correct

Don, If you can replicate the problem, please tell us how you did it. 
If it has anything to do with drinking coffee, don't tell us.

I recall that some time back there was a bug where GnuCash did have some
issue with this. Actually, I thought that some reports incorrectly
displayed notes or memos.   A search of Bugzilla turned up some
interesting things.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660904 reports exactly what
Don just reported.  Such reports are often ignored because many users do
get the notes and memo fields confused.  In fact several similar reports
were closed after investigation revealed user confusion. 

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=495219 indicates that the QIF
importer may be importing at least some Quicken Memos into the Notes
field.  That was around versions 2.2.1 through 2.2.4.  It has been a
long time since I tried using that importer.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=690574 suggests that the
Quicken importer is correctly importing split memos now. 

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=642199 illustrates the
confusion that results when the user does not realize that a search
starting in a register only searches split lines associated to that
register.

Sorry about the earlier confusion on my part.

David C
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