[GNC] Splitting a Transaction (Newbie Question)

[David H]

Pete,

You're on the right track.  If the transaction disappears after you press
return to commit it, it sounds like you are not entering this transaction
from any of the registers involved, or if you are in one of the registers
involved the date you entered is out of the range of dates displayed for
the register.  Do you have any filtering or sorting turned on ?  Also
Gnucash remembers the last txn/txns you entered and when you start to enter
another txn it will helpfully pre-fill the details for you which sounds
like what is happening when you attempt to add a further txn?  You can
always run a txn report to display all the txns in the bank account
register.  Also check out the view options - Basic / Txn Journal / Double
line.   Also check out the Concept Guide and Help in  the Gnucash itself
under the Help menu option
- file:///Applications/GnuCash/Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/en.lproj/GnuCash%20Guide/cbook-together1.html#cbook-puttoget-transactions

Cheers David H.




On Sun, 18 Dec 2022 at 08:20, p.f.cuthbert at btinternet.com p.f.cuthbert---
via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:

>
> Hi
>
> Having today transferred all my data from Quicken to GNUCash I am just
> trying to understand how it works.  Entering single data items is easy,
> but the difficulty I have hit is with payments that require multiple
> debits (ie. a split payment)  The User Guides that I found today uses an
> income example that I did not find at all helpful despite several
> readings.
>
> So let us have an example:
>
> Payment by bank card (credit entry to Bank Account) of £7.24 comprising
> a book (debit £5.25 to Entertainment) and some milk (debit £1.99 to
> Groceries).
>
> The process in Quicken would be credit bank £7.24, then for the
> 'Category' choose Split and fill in the details tabbing down to the next
> line and choosing catergory and amount until the balance unallocated
> drops to zero.  Finally save transaction by pressing Return.
>
> The process in GNUCash seems to start the same.  Credit bank £7.24, then
> choose Split.  The yellow analysis lines come up, but for me the debit
> (Deposit) column comes up £16.74, which is the last Groceries posting.
> This is because I put the store name in as the descriptor for the
> transaction but the last one was not split. I put in the correct account
> Entertainment and then delete the £16.74 and enter £5.25. Next I tab
> down to the next line.  I enter some description like Milk, then select
> the Account Groceries, tab to the next column and enter £1.99.  At this
> point the total Credit of £7.24 is still in place.
>
> At this point things look good.  So what does one do next? Press Return
> seems like a safe bet.  However it is far from it.  All that happens is
> that the whole transaction disappears.  The alternative, using another
> Tab is almost as bad.  The £1.99 debit in Groceries is now replaced by a
> £5.25 credit and the £7.24 credit from the bank has disappeared.  Ok, it
> makes the books appear to balance since double entry is maintained but
> the whole process seem astonishingly random.
>
> If any kind reader can advise on the correct way yo handle this simple
> task I would be most grateful as I do simple domestic accounting but
> have lots of split debit analysis.
>
> Regards
>
> Pete
>
>
> Dr Peter Cuthbert
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