QuickFill

[Chris Good]

Hi Wm,

 

(Forgive my ignorance but if you don’t think this is rude, I’ve always wondered, is Wm an abbreviation for William? How do you pronounce it?)

 

Thanks for your suggestion. Sorry for the slow response, I‘m back from holidays now.

 

I’ve updated to GC 2.6.5 and tested what I believe is referred to as QuickFill in the GnuCash guide.

QuickFill does add all the splits from a previous transaction to a blank transaction when you are in Basic Ledger or Auto-Split Ledger mode but doesn’t when you are in Transaction Journal (all splits shown) mode.

 

Unfortunately for me, I usually operate in Transaction Journal mode, i.e. I open the register by using Open SubAccounts, as most of my accounts have subaccounts for wife and myself, and it is not possible to change to Basic Ledger or Auto-Split Ledger mode from Transaction Journal mode.

 

I don’t know how much work it would be but I would find it very helpful if the description QuickFill feature would also try to match descriptions for all the subaccounts of the current register tab, not just the current account.

 

I searched BugZilla for an outstanding request like this but didn’t find one.

If other people could let me know if they would also find this useful, I’ll raise a feature request?

 

Regards, Chris Good


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Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 21:39:46 +0000
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Maybe there is a better way for me to enter transactions which wouldn't

require copying and pasting amounts so much?

 

I tend always be in transaction journal mode (all splits show) and to

'duplicate' just about all the transactions I enter, so that all splits are

copied into the new transaction.


Maybe that changes what gets picked up for the auto fill?




I.e. I 'find' transactions with a unique word in the description, then

duplicate one of them.

 

If I just type the description into a blank transaction, it brings up the

last transaction as expected but doesn't add the other splits from the last

transaction, so I find it faster to find, then duplicate.


It does get the splits from the transaction it is "remembering" here 
(I'm on 2.6.5 but don't recall this changing for a while) I'm guessing 
without trying that the view may affect things.  Have you tried seeing 
if it picks up the splits in basic ledger view?

-- 
Wm...

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