Account selection lists

[Bernie Ledwick]

John,

Sorry, just noticed something. If you do a transaction search, and select
"Account" as the type, when you click on "Selected Accounts" you get exactly
the dialogue I was looking for when allocation transactions to an account
(except in the search context, you can select multiple accounts). The same
is true in reports when selecting accounts.

I suppose, if you wanted to extend it out a bit, you could even allow
multiple account selection and create splits as appropriate for you to enter
the correct split values.

I appreciate that the current account selection is done by a combo-box, but
it can't be that difficult to invoke the  "Select Accounts to match"
dialogue can it? Am I missing something blindingly obvious here?

Regards,
Bernie


-----Original Message-----
From: gnucash-user
[mailto:gnucash-user-bounces+bernie=ledwick.me.uk at gnucash.org] On Behalf Of
Bernie Ledwick
Sent: 20 November 2016 16:00
To: 'John Ralls' <jralls at ceridwen.us>
Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: RE: Account selection lists

John,

Thanks for the update. I am importing most of the transactions and it is
only the ones that are not auto-matched that I need to re-allocate. It's no
big deal, and I can definitely live with it for now. It was just a
suggestion for a slight improvement in functionality.

Unfortunately, I don't have any c++ skills at all, but maybe I could learn.
Never too late to teach old dogs...

Regards,
Bernie

-----Original Message-----
From: John Ralls [mailto:jralls at ceridwen.us]
Sent: 20 November 2016 14:50
To: Bernie Ledwick <bernie at ledwick.me.uk>
Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: Account selection lists


> On Nov 20, 2016, at 4:35 AM, Bernie Ledwick <bernie at ledwick.me.uk> wrote:
> 
> John,
> 
> Thanks for that. If that is the case, then maybe the facility drag and 
> drop to or form the account tab instead. Just a thought, but I guess 
> looking at the lack of existing drag and drop facilities, maybe this 
> wouldn't be possible either?
> 
> Anyhow, GnuCash is still a cracking product. Thanks to all involved.

Bernie,

Drag and drop should be possible. The cell editors in both the account page
would need to be enabled for it and configured to send and receive the right
sort of content. None of the development team will have the time to work on
this anytime soon, but feel free to submit a patch or pull request.

In the meantime you might reconsider  your objection to using the keyboard.
After all, you just typed the transaction's description, you're going to
have to type the amount, and if you use the tab key instead of the mouse to
move between cells then your hands stay on the keyboard and you can select
desired account more quickly than you possibly could with a mouse regardless
of whether you had a tree-view or a list-view.

Regards,
John Ralls


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