G'day GnuCashers,
On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 12:31:16PM -0700, Dave Peticolas wrote:
> Are you talking about the transfer field on the transaction line in
> multiline mode? That field wasn't there previously, the space was just
> blank. The new field (currently called 'transfer to') allows you to
> move a transaction into another account. The transfer fields on the
> split lines, and the transfer field in the single and double modes,
> should work as they always have.
Aha, this is exactly what I'm talking about. However I'm sure that
the space most certainly had an effect, or at least the way that I
used it. I'll explain.
I run auto-single mode. Almost all of my transactions are single lines,
but I like having the current transaction make room for splits so that
if there are any, I can enter them. In the vast majority of cases,
I'll enter a transaction exactly as if it were a single transaction.
Eg (in Assets:Cash)
01/01/2000 Groceries Expenses:Food $100.00
The Expenses:Food indicates that I've taken $100 from my cash asset,
and transfered it to the my Expenses:Food account. GnuCash takes
care of the double entry and all those other good things, and I just
leave the split lines empty (hit enter on them) because there aren't
any splits.
However, now (when running in auto-single mode) if I do the same thing,
the transaction dissapears and moves itself to the Expenses:Food account,
which is not at all what I want. Now I have to enter ANOTHER line
of information for the split, which is a lot more keypresses, and a lot
more work. Alternatively, I can change to use single mode, but that's
annoying if I ever find myself wanting to enter splits.
To me, it made a lot more sense for GnuCash to allow me to enter both
single transactions and splits in auto-single mode, and certainly
provided me with a lot of flexibility and reduced wasted keystrokes.
Using one account's register to enter data into another account's
register (when not part of double entry) doesn't strike me as a feature
that would be used very often. There's also the potential for people
to accidently enter a transaction into another account, and the user
having to hunt down the rogue transaction. (Scrub does this well if
you use double-accounting, but not everyone does.)
Cheers,
Paul
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