[GNC] Splitting a Transaction (Newbie Question)

[Adrien Monteleone]

Certainly hitting Enter early is the cause. Before I sent the previous 
reply, I tried playing with Basic View and the Split button to see how I 
could manage it and was having difficulty. I guess that is because I 
already know how to avoid doing so.

After a few more attempts, I'm going to hazard the following guess:

1. Start a new transaction
2. Hit the Split button
3. Avoid taking careful notice that the anchoring split already exists 
though *without an amount*.
4. Re-assign that split's account to some other account (or simply leave 
its amount blank)
5. Add more splits for the other Expenses/accounts.
6. Avoid taking notice that a new un-assigned split is auto-created 
*with a balancing amount*.
7. Hit Enter

The result is the transaction 'disappears' (because it is un-anchored to 
the register in view) and that final balancing split gets assigned to 
the Imbalance-xxx account.

I suspect this workflow because in normal Basic View (un-split) you 
don't need to enter the split anchoring the transaction to the register 
being viewed, you only enter the 'other' split. A new user might not 
realize that when using the Split feature, you now need to enter them 
all explicitly. Though I also suspect this is covered in the 
Documentation which gets rare attention from new uesers. (I'll have to 
drag that up to confirm myself.)

Regards,
Adrien

On 12/18/22 3:37 PM, Liz Dodd wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Dec 2022 13:15:41 -0600
> Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
> 
>> I'm not certain of the exact keyboard mechanics you used to cause
>> this, but the solution is simple.
> 
> It is often caused by pressing the Enter key prematurely. Adrien knows
> that, I'd just like to suggest it here, so you can watch what happens
> in future.