[GNC] gnucash-user Digest, Vol 268, Issue 19

[Mike Brady]

Autofill usually allows you to enter a transaction description without 
editing. It's at the top of the pick list. Doing that should avoid 
generating the splits if the last time the description was used there 
were splits. Another alternative I've found is, before entering any 
numbers for the transaction, to right-click then "remove all splits" 
from that popup menu; that makes it a simple transaction. Don't know 
if/where that's documented, but I found it by trial and error. Same 
behavior in 5.11 and 5.12 in Windows 11 and Linux Mint.

-Mike B

On 7/9/2025 8:34, sunfish62 at yahoo.comvia 
gnucash-user-request at gnucash.org wrote:
> 8. Re:  Split Transactions (sunfish62 at yahoo.com)
>
> Autofill has *always* duplicated all splits in a memorized 
> transaction, which is what OP is displeased with. In other words, if I 
> have a transaction with the description "My Complicated Transaction" 
> with 17 entries on it, the next time I start typing "My ", it will 
> duplicate all 17 previous entries with their amounts. OP doesn't want 
> the duplication, but unfortunately, that's not how that feature works. 
> ?David T.? On Jul 9, 2025, 9:13?AM, at 9:13?AM, Michael or Penny 
> Novack via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
>> On 7/9/2025 3:35 AM, Geoffry Loats wrote:
>>> I find that when I enter split transactions rather than a fresh
>> split, I
>>> get a previous split transaction with numerous lines when all I want
>> is a
>>> new one.
>>> Is there anyway to fix this?
>>>
>> I have never seen behavior anything like that.
>>
>> Describe the process you are using to enter a new "split" transaction.
>> Start from the first step. For example (it might be) enter the account
>> of ONE of the accounts of the split just as if not a "split
>> transaction". But instead of entering a second account, hit "split".
>>
>> Michael D Novack
>>
>> PS: If my example first step NOT what you are doing. might be the
>> problem
>>
>> PPS: Unless you have chosen "Journal Mode" for entering all
>> transactions, split, or not