population

Christine Maloney cmaloney4 at talktalk.net
Fri Aug 4 19:41:44 EDT 2017


Hi Maf
I followed your instructions and I am happy I have completely removed the memo and it works well now. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Maf. King [mailto:maf at chilwell.net] 
Sent: Friday, August 04, 2017 9:19 AM
To: Christine Maloney <cmaloney4 at talktalk.net>
Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: population

Hi Christine,

OK, so if you can see the "memo" boxes, then you are looking at a splits-view of the transaction.  That's fine, I shall do the same and tell you exactly what I press to enter a new transaction in my bank account register. 

I use auto-split double line as my default view settings, and for this I've got Formal Account labels set, which I think you have too.

>From the Chart of Accounts view, I double-click to open my bank account register, and the view switches to show it.

The Date field of a new transaction is already selected.  I press minus twice to enter a transaction from 2 days ago.

TAB -> num field.  Leave blank.   
TAB -> Description field.  Type TestTransaction TAB -> New Row, Notes field. Type TestNote (won't be visible in single line
view)
TAB -> New Row, Action field (was num, but the heading has changed) LEave Blank TAB -> 1st Memo.  Type test1 TAB -> Account.  Already shows bank account. leave it as is.
TAB -> Debit. Leave blank
TAB -> Credit. Type 1.00
TAB -> New Row, Action. leave blank
TAB -> Memo.  Type test2
TAB -> Account. Type Expenses
TAB -> Debit already filled with 1.00. Leave it.
TAB -> Credit. leave blank
TAB -> new row, action, leave blank
ENTER ->  Transaction remains in bank account register in the correct place in date order.

what happens if you follow the exact sequence above?  If it differs, please explain clearly in terms like above, press such-and-such, click here etc.

If you don't want to see the memo lines, then you'll have to go to the View Menu, and select "Basic Ledger", but if you ever need to enter a transaction with more than 2 splits, you'll see them anyway (all transactions in GC have at least 2 splits (to 2 accounts)).

HTH,
Maf.




On Friday, 4 August 2017 00:14:39 BST Christine Maloney wrote:
> I am not able to add anything to the credit/debit columns I can only 
> add entries to the memo lines which I do not even want there. The 
> version is
> 2.6.17
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Maf. King [mailto:maf at chilwell.net]
> Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2017 5:51 PM
> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org; Christine Maloney 
> <cmaloney4 at talktalk.net>
> Subject: Re: population
> 
> On Thursday, 3 August 2017 17:01:22 BST Christine Maloney via 
> gnucash-user
> 
> wrote:
> > When I add the small amount of £1.00 the system takes it in the memo 
> > entries, but when I press enter it disappears from the system.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Only press Enter if you are ready to commit a transaction to the register.
> Tab to move between all the various fields for data.
> 
> If you are putting a 1.00 in the memo, then what are you putting in 
> the transfer account and Credit/Debit/Deposit/Withdrawal etc columns?
> 
> Which version of GC have you installed, so as to be more stable than 
> what you had previously?
> 
> Maf.
> 
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