The descriptions that I enter in GNU cash for split items get truncated. Is there a way to change this or is this a hard limit?
To provide some context, I pay a handyman to work on various projects. When I write the check to pay him I split the amount among the various projects (which correspond to line items on his timesheet)that he worked on to allocated it to the different expense accounts associated with those projects. I like to enter a fairly long description which includes things like the date the work was done, the location, and a brief description of what was done but GNU cash truncates it when producing reports or when I go back and look at data that I entered earlier. Should I be setting up an account for the handyman in which the line items of his timesheet would be entered as individual transactions which add up to the amount he gets paid? I get the impression that I'm probably trying to misuse GNU cash again as I was when I paid my credit card bills with long split transactions. I was able to fix that by entering the transactions in an account for the credit card and then having a single transaction from my bank account to pay off the credit card. I'm not adept enough at accounting, to put it mildly, to know if there's something analogous I should be doing in this case. Can you explain it in a way that a newbie would understand? Thank you _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
