[GNC] Split Transaction in One Account results in Multiple Transactions in the Other Account

[Tom Route-36]

Hi Christopher,

Everyone's comments have been really helpful; and I think I understand 
how GnuCash is designed to handle splits now.  For my purposes it seems 
like using the Transaction Journal view is the way to go.  I can see all 
the details of my splits, including where I have multiple splits to the 
same account.  More importantly, when I'm in Transaction Journal mode 
and I jump to those accounts I don't see multiple copies of the same 
transaction anymore.  So all things considered, I think GnuCash will 
work pretty well for me as a Transaction Journal.

The one thing that would be a nice option as I mentioned would be the 
ability to select a modified Transaction Journal view that essentially 
collapses all those splits.  So, yes, that would mean hiding data from 
the user when that modified view is selected.  Admittedly, I'm not a 
developer that understands what's involved in creating that.  But it 
would seem that hiding data in a view would at least be reasonably 
doable, not a complete rewrite of the code.  It's really just a feature 
request.

Tom



On 8/24/2025 10:16 AM, Christopher Lam wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 24 Aug 2025 at 15:04, Tom Route-36 <tom.route36 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:tom.route36 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Separately though, I think I'll also try reporting this as a kind-of-a
>     bug -- at least in the way that the info is being displayed to the
>     user.
>        Perhaps if it's not considered a true bug, maybe the developers
>     could
>     consider the issue an enhancement or feature request.  Using the
>     Transaction Journal mode would actually be okay; but it would be
>     nice if
>     the user had the OPTION to view the registers in that mode with each
>     transaction COLLAPSED INTO A SINGLE LINE, at least in the way that it's
>     displayed.
> 
> 
> The difficulty is that the Register view (ie. green/yellow background) 
> has a lot of data for each transaction and split. Transactions have 
> date, num, description, doclink. Splits have memo, notes, action, 
> amount, value, account. And more. The register is inflexible in its 
> display, but had debugging and feedback from more than two decades of 
> use. To condense into a single line means hiding data from the user.