Tabbing order of fields

[AC]

I'm a bit confused by your description because I don't have splits
visible.  Please do let me know what I've missed in your description so
I can better understand.  For what I see, I have double line views
turned on but not automatic splits.  In the mutual fund register I have
the columns:
Date, Num, Description, Transfer, R, Shares, Price, Buy Sell, Balance
and Action (on the next line).

If I start on a blank transaction in the Date field, as I tab over I
land on Description, Transfer and then Shares as I would expect assuming
that the description I type in is brand new (never used before in the
ledger).

However, if I repeat the process and reuse a description (let's say
"Dividend") as soon as I tab out of the Description field I jump all the
way to the Buy or Sell field (whatever was used last with that
description).  The Shares, Price, Buy and Sell fields all auto populate
with the previously used values but now I don't end up on Shares after
tabbing.  It's a minor thing but it makes entering transactions a little
more awkward than other ledgers because the order of data entry is
altered (number of shares isn't always the same and I usually let the
price get autocalculated so that my buy/sell fields match the statement.)


On 2016-08-27 07:57, david.carlson.417 wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> You are observing an artifact of the register view when there is mixture of 
> split lines linked to security accounts and linked to currency accounts.  When 
> the curser is in a split line for a security account the tab order does include 
> the shares and price fields in right to left order.
> 
> You do bring up a good point, however.  GnuCash does assume that when you are in 
> a security account and creating a new transaction that the new line is a 
> security account line and it does stop on shares and price.
> 
> It would be helpful if those boxes were hatched out in currency account lines so 
> that it is obvious that they are not used in those lines.  You could suggest 
> that as a new feature either in a bug report or the new feature request page at 
> uservoice.com.
> 
> David C
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> 
> -------- Original message --------
> From: AC <gnucash at acarver.net>
> Date: 8/26/2016 11:44 PM (GMT-06:00)
> To: GnuCash users group <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> Subject: Tabbing order of fields
> 
> Is there a way to rearrange the order of tabbing between fields in a
> ledger?  I'm using one of the mutual fund ledgers and after I tab to
> exit the description field it skips the next columns "shares" and
> "price" and goes straight to either the "buy" or "sell" field (depending
> on the auto-fill).  I'd like to go to "shaes" first  then price (so I
> can erase it) instead of having to go backwards then forwards again.
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