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

[David Cousens]

"To condense into a single line means hiding data from the user."

Which is why the registers have the options of the Basic Ledger/Auto-
Split ledger/Transaction Journal. You can choose the level of detail
needed for the purpose you have that register open.

Tom's concern, I felt, lay in the impression that the display of the
three splits in the "Groceries" register in Basic Ledger mode,  which
could each be opened separately to display the splits,  gave the
impression that the transaction had been recorded multiple times, which
is not the case.

My preference philosophically would be for the Basic Ledger mode to
display the total of all the splits to that account for a single
transaction rather than the individual lines for each split. You could
then right click, select split transaction to display the individual
splits on separate lines, i.e. as in the Auto-split mode or Transaction
Journal mode. I generally operate in Auto-Split mode as the default. I
have not looked at the register code to see how feasible this would be
at this stage and I won't have a chance to in the near future as I am
knee deep in renovations at the moment.



On Mon, 2025-08-25 at 00:16 +0800, Christopher Lam wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Aug 2025 at 15:04, Tom Route-36 <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.
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