[GNC] Split Transactions: "wrong" Num fields show in reports

[Paul Kroitor]

Hi, I've looked for this in the archives but nothing pops up. I have years of experience with GnuCash cannot seem to resolve this.

Simplified, we have a regular bank account which is used to reimburse construction worker's out-of-pocket purchases. They provide a store receipt, which gets a NUMber, and an e-transfer is made to their bank account. Then we create a weekly transaction list, showing the all the expenses. It (of course) needs to show the receipt number.

This works fine for individual payments (each expense is listed with the Num correctly shown). But if we repay the worker for two items, we enter it as a split: a credit to the bank, and two debits, one for each receipt (e.g. #27 Nails $5, #28 Paint $10).

The problem is that the transaction report always shows the Num from the main entry in the bank ledger, not the individual Nums for the split lines. It does this even though the transaction report is selecting from the Expense ledgers, not the bank.

==== Entry into Bank shows as follows in Autosplit mode ====
Jan 1  #xxx  John Smith                    <acct is blank>   C   $15
           #27   ABC Hardware              Nails                     D     $5
           #28   DEF Paints                      Paint                    D   $10
                     (bank tracking code)    Bank Account    C    $15

==== But the transaction report for expenses shows ====
Jan 1  #xxx  ABC Hardware             Nails        $5
Jan 1  #xxx  DEF Paints                    Paint        $10

Note the Num shown is from the top line of the entry, but the description is from each split line. We need the Num from the split line to be shown.

Is this a bug, or is it designed to work this way? And if so, why, and is there a work-around?

Thanks for any advice, info, pointers, etc
Paul Kroitor