Drop Down Selection List in Description?

Jack Slater theilliniguy at gmail.com
Thu Mar 15 16:29:10 EDT 2018


I filed an enhancement request and included this in the request comments.

On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 1:32 PM, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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