[GNC] difficulties with managing accounts with lots of split transactions

Derek Atkins derek at ihtfp.com
Sun Nov 7 08:13:46 EST 2021


Use a vendor invoice to record it..  Or scan the receipt and attach it..  
Or put the info into the notes... Or..

Lots of options.

-derek
Sent using my mobile device. Please excuse any typos.
On November 7, 2021 7:10:42 AM Platon Pronko <platon7pronko at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I currently find it a bit difficult to handle multi-split transactions that 
> include several "splits" going to the same account. For example, if I'm 
> buying some computer hardware I want to record the prices of each part for 
> later reference, but all those parts are recorded in "Hardware" account - 
> thus several splits go into the same account.
>
> In default "Basic Ledger" view this is shown in a confusing way - each 
> split gets its own row, but each row displays the same transaction 
> description (not the name of the individual part).
>
> For the moment I explored several different solutions to this situation:
>
> 1. Record each item (hardware part in this example) as a separate 
> transaction. This solves the issue with display since I can now put each 
> item name into the description field. But now I have multiple transactions 
> my credit card account, which would make reliable reconciliation almost 
> impossible.
>
> 2. Use the "Transaction Journal" view. It handles this situation a bit 
> better than "Basic Ledger" - the rows are not duplicated. But it show all 
> the splits, even the ones not related to the currently viewed account, and 
> the simple two-split transactions start taking 3 rows each, which is too 
> verbose, especially since this is a global setting.
>
> 3. Show "memo" as a separate column in "Basic Ledger" view (I've attached 
> the code patch that does it, applies to version 4.8). This works quite 
> nicely - simple transactions keep using one row, complex transactions 
> display only the splits related to the current register and each split 
> shows its memo right in the register. However this is a code customization, 
> won't help anybody else with similar problems, and maintaining it is going 
> to be more difficult than built-in solutions.
>
> Do you have any suggestions about a better way of handling this?
>
> Best regards,
> Platon Pronko
>
>
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