[GNC] Prevent register from auto-duplicating transactions?

[D.]

My suggestion in this scenario is to *begin* the description with the variable text. That way, you type fewer characters. For example, you could have "Dividends - AAPL" or you could have "AAPL - Dividends" The latter requires only a couple of characters' typing to get the unique entry.?.


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From: "Stephen M. Butler" <kg7je at arrl.net>
Sent: Sun Jul 12 23:54:17 EDT 2020
To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: [GNC] Prevent register from auto-duplicating transactions?

Use a slightly different description.  (store name + 4) for the 4 line
split and (store name + 1) for the single line split.

On 7/12/20 12:27 PM, Stan Brown wrote:
> Example: In a trip to the supermarket I buy food, wine, flowers, and
> cleaning supplies. To record that, I enter a transaction in GC, in the
> register for my credit card:
> Description = (store name)
> Click the Split button.
> In each of four splits, Memo = details of what I bought, Account =
> (account for that type of expense), Debit = (amount)
> In the fifth split, Memo = blank, Account = (credit card), credit = (total)
> All of that is fine. (I don't divide that purchase into four
> transactions, because I want the credit amount to match what will be
> shown on my credit-card statement.)
>
> But here's the problem. On the next trip to that store, I buy only food.
> What I want to do, in the account register for my credit card, is enter
> Description = (store name), Transfer = "Groceries", Credit = (amount).
> But as soon as I enter the store name in description, GC creates five
> splits that duplicate that previous shopping trip. I have to click Split
> and manually delete three splits, one at a time.
>
> Is there some way to tell GC "don't finish this one transaction for me"?
>
> Or, almost as good, when it does do the auto-complete, is there some way
> to tell it "not this time, thank you", and have it delete all of what it
> helpfully created for me??
>

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