[GNC] How to edit pop-up menu when typing transaction descriptions

[Adrien Monteleone]

You or anyone for the case of existing vs. new.

Honestly, I haven't had any issue with the feature at all and over 90% 
of my transactions are all touching the same source account so my list 
is potentially very large. I've only found a handful of variant 
spellings for payees, and corrected them right away. But apparently 
mileage varies as there is a non-zero contingent that is having problems.

It *does* narrow down the list as you keep typing, perhaps folks are 
expecting a 'begins with' search and don't like to type more than 2 
characters?

I'd at least think a 'begins with' type search would be better, and more 
like how the previous auto-fill worked.

I'm not opposed to an independent table of payees if that happens, but I 
can imagine it being a mess eventually, and then requests for copying 
lists to different account registers, or syncing them up, etc.

Regards,
Adrien

On 6/6/23 10:53 AM, David Carlson wrote:
> Adrien,
> 
> Who are you asking to provide an example?
> My point was that the manual editing method that you suggested couldn't be
> used if the existing descriptions must be kept.
> In my data file that is often the case.
> I agree that there is a lot of 'noise' in the drop down list of suggestions
> caused by searching existing transactions to populate this list.
> 
> I think that such a list would best be populated from an independent table
> which would be entirely new to GnuCash.  It could be called 'Payees' and it
> should be independent for each account.