[GNC] Possible Jump Enhancement

David Carlson david.carlson.417 at gmail.com
Tue Dec 8 17:48:58 EST 2020 

When I posed the Jump enhancement question, I did not mention my own usage
or how it might be affected.

I find that even though I keep most of my register views in the Auto-split
Ledger or Transaction Journal modes I frequently find my focus in the Date,
Number, Description or Notes fields of transactions when I want to go to
the 'other side' of a transaction to find another transaction in that same
account, for example.  I do have a lot of transactions with more than two
splits, but more than half have only two splits.  When the focus is in one
of those common fields of transactions, it would be fewer clicks to
immediately right click and click 'Jump' or navigate the focus to the
header and click the 'Jump' button or click "Action" > 'Jump' button to
jump to the 'Transfer' account than to navigate the focus to the header and
click the 'Split' button if needed, navigate the focus back to the
transaction and click a certain split line, then right click and click
'Jump' or navigate the focus to the header and click the 'Jump' button or
click "Action" > 'Jump'.

Another enhancement would be to create a keystroke shortcut to the 'Jump'
function which could save several mouse actions and clicks.  That would be
even cooler if the underscores were restored to the menu descriptions.


On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 12:33 PM will at theprescotts.com <will at theprescotts.com>
wrote:

> If someone is taking a poll, I don't think it is worth the effort either.
> But then I mostly use either the split view or auto-split view.
>
> Will
>
> On 2020 Dec 8, at 12-08 11:39:36, Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:
>
> Just a devil's advocate question, but how is hitting the Jump button to
> get a popup to see the splits any different than hitting the Split button
> to get the register to expand the transaction to see the splits?
>
> It's still two mouse-clicks to get to the target account, but without a
> popup.
>
> -derek
>
>
> On Tue, December 8, 2020 12:25 pm, Edith Murphy wrote:
> > Hi David,
> >
> > I would find that helpful as it would allow the quick jump for a split
> > transaction when looking at the basic ledger.  Also a way to see which
> > accounts are involved in a split transaction without having to click
> > split.  I often want a quick look at info from the auto-split ledger
> > without having to switch to it.
> >
> > Thank you and all the people who work on this program.  I appreciate what
> > you do.
> >
> > Edith
> >
> >
> > edith at mossbrookfiberarts.com
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> >>  1.  Possible Suggestion: Give transactions a default 'Jump to'
> >>     target account (David Carlson)
> >>  2.  Fwd: Re: Possible Suggestion: Give transactions a default
> >>     'Jump to' target account (Stan Brown)
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> >> Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2020 10:18:28 -0600
> >> From: David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
> >> To: Gnucash Users <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> >> Subject: [GNC] Possible Suggestion: Give transactions a default 'Jump
> >>      to' target account
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> >> I am considering proposing an enhancement to GnuCash to provide a
> >> default
> >> 'Jump to' target action. If there are only two split lines in the
> >> transaction, it would be the transfer account.  In complex transactions
> >> there would be a pop-up giving a list of the accounts in the transaction
> >> and asking which account to 'Jump to'.  This action would be overridden
> >> by
> >> the current 'Jump to' destination when the focus is in a split line.
> >>
> >> The primary purpose of this proposal would be to define a 'Jump to'
> >> destination that is invocable from the base fields of the transaction
> >> which
> >> are often the only fields visible when the account register display is
> >> set
> >> to 'Basic Ledger'.
> >>
> >> Before I make the proposal, I would like comments on whether this is
> >> worth
> >> pursuing.
> >>
> >> --
> >> David Carlson
> >>
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> >> Message: 2
> >> Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2020 08:36:35 -0800
> >> From: Stan Brown <the_stan_brown at fastmail.fm>
> >> To: GnuCash User List <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> >> Subject: [GNC] Fwd: Re: Possible Suggestion: Give transactions a
> >>      default 'Jump to' target account
> >> Message-ID: <40380037-868b-e813-2f7f-210b51592bf2 at fastmail.fm>
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> >> Apologies -- I clicked "reply" instead of "reply List".
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Since you asked for opinions --
> >>
> >> Speaking for myself only, I just click Split in the top row of icons,
> >> then click on the account I want in the expanded transaction and Jump. I
> >> don't think the pop-up would help me in my workflow.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Stan Brown
> >> Tehachapi, CA, USA
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