GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 149241
Use Split Memo instead of Txn Desc with multiple splits in one acct.
Last modified: 2018-06-29 20:45:54 UTC
When I enter a split line transaction in the ledger, the split items have a separate line a comment which is ok. But when I go to the ledger that the line items are in, only the main line is displayed - not the split line comments. Example: Liabilities/Accounts Payable date Shaff Piano Supply charge balance 387-128 - PVC-E glue costofgoodssold payment 1407 - Protek costosgoodssold payment liabilities:AP charge costofgoodssold date Shaff Piano Supply -- split transaction exp balance date Shaff Piano Supply -- split transaction exp balance *** Shouldn't it read ** costofgoodssold date 387-128 - PVC-E glue -- split transaction exp balance date 1407 - Protek -- split transaction exp balance ------------------ This way everyone can benefit by seeing what was ordered and using this as a way of tracking inventory. Thanks, Duaine
No. The "-- split transaction" implies you have multiple splits. If you want to see them, you need to expand the basic register to either an auto-split or journal style to see the splits. This sounds like bug #105797.
I know how to use the split transaction. What I mean is that the split transaction should show the split transaction desc instead of the main transaction desc over and over. In the example, every split transaction, in the costofgoodsold, currently shows Shaff Piano Supply for each split, instead of showing, 378-128 ... glue and 1407 - protek which is the real split trans desc. I hope this is clearer
wait -- are you talking about the results of an invoice??? A transaction has a single transaction description. A basic ledger ALWAYS shows the transaction description. It does not automatically detect if you have a split transaction with multiple splits in the same account (like you may get with a posted invoice). Is this what you mean? Looking back at your example, where you're using AP, it looks like you might actually mean this.. So.. You are correct that it doesn't handle this correctly because the register is displaying "splits" not "transactions" and doesn't actually understand that multiple splits actually refer to the same transaction. I've fixed the summary to be more clear. Feel free to adjust if you believe it is not accurate.
The AP is showing the transaction corretly. The COGS is not showing the same split desc, that the AP split shows. Shouldn't the COGS splits show the same descs as the AP splits ?
AP is only showing it "correctly" when you expand the splits in the transaction, or turn on Auto-split or Journal mode. So I disbelieve that AP is showing the transaction "correctly".. AP and COGS would both show the same Transaction Description. Let me state this again: In Basic Ledger Mode, the register shows the Tranasction Description. It never shows the Split Memo. The only time you see the Split Memo is when you expand the transaction via the "split button", auto-split mode, or journal mode.
I totally agree. Except that I'm looking for the COGS split entries to show the memo that I typed in on the AP trans. Currently, the COGS split entries are showing the main trans memo.
This is a posted Vendor Bill? The Vendor->Bill interface will put the Vendor name into the Transaction Description and your "Post Description" in each memo. The line-item descriptions in the vendor bill are not stored in the transaction. Looking at the transaction, however, it's unlikely this was an auto-posted transaction -- the business features would have combined the entries into a single split. So, if this was a manually entered transaction then it's STILL behaving correctly because, as I said, it's showing each split as if it were a single transaction (not realizing that it's the same transaction). What's your register style? What happens if you click on the "split" button? Could you take a couple of screen shots and attach them here?
Created attachment 30656 [details] Liabilities
Created attachment 30657 [details] Cost Of Goods Sold
I don't know how to take computer screen shots, however I took camera shots which I hope are clear enough to show what I'm doing. The first picture is Liabilities:Accounts Payable:Credit Card(USB) with the Split button on and style of basic ledger The second picture is Cost of Goods Sold:Materials and Supplies with no Split button on and style of basic ledger. If there is a way the capture the screen, please let me know.
Thanks, these definitely show what I thought they would, and my analysis above is correct. When you have a multi-split transaction where multiple splits are in the same account then that account view shows each "split" as a separate transaction. I think it's clear what you want now, so I'll leave this open for one of the devs to decide to implement it. I don't see a straightforward implementation path to make this happen. Thanks for the suggestion.
I've been bitten by this a few times as well. Is there any interest for implementing this still? My main usecase is when I buy two completely unrelated things in a single transaction. I use a split to separate the two products with proper descriptions, but the COGS doesn't show these. This is even an issue when the two splits are on different COGS accounts, since I can't put both (or sometimes even more than two) product names in the transaction description (That would get messy real quick). A related issue caused by this, is that's its impossible to tell transaction splits apart from each other when they have the same amount. This is best illustrated by an example, I will upload a screenshot in a minute. In the screenshot, you see three items on a CGOS (in Basic Ledger mode). The first of the three has been expanded using the "Split" button, to show the full structure of the transaction. Now, it is impossible to see which of the EUR 10 lines correspond to which transaction splits, since the transaction description and the amount are the same for each. Even when you expand the split like the first item, you can't tell which transaction split it is. This issue would be solved by using the transaction split memo instead of the transaction description as well.
Created attachment 150827 [details] Impossible to tell these splits apart
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