Drop Down Selection List in Description?

David Carlson david.carlson.417 at gmail.com
Thu Mar 15 14:32:00 EDT 2018


AFAIK The Auto-fill is also restricted to showing text that has previously
been used only in that particular account register, not text used in other
account registers.

David C

On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 1:25 PM, Adrien Monteleone <
adrien.monteleone at gmail.com> wrote:

> Correct. There is no drop down list, but there is an auto-fill
> functionality which is what you are seeing.
>
> If you really want it as a drop-down, you’d have to file that as an
> enhancement request on Bugzilla.
>
> The auto-fill seems to work well enough, but it would be nice to edit this
> source because it also remembers misspellings.
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
>
> > On Mar 15, 2018, at 12:57 PM, Jack Slater <theilliniguy at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > I see the capability in the Action Field and the Transfer Field. It would
> > be helpful if same existed in the Description Field. I looked in Register
> > Preferences but didn't see an option looking like that.
> >
> > I know in the Quicken world, a file was created with new entries and this
> > "remembered list" was handy to select correct entries when human memory
> > failed.
> >
> > An example might look like:
> >
> > Illini
> > Illinois Dept of Revenue
> > Illinois Secretary of State
> > Illinois State Fair
> >
> > Maybe this does exist and I can't find it. I realize there is some type
> of
> > "memory" occurring because I can enter "Illi" and GnuCash does pop up the
> > most recent entry starting with "Illi".
> >
> > Jack Slater
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