GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 340397
double-line transaction matcher to see the description line better
Last modified: 2018-06-29 21:03:21 UTC
It is not easy to find out which transaction depends to a row, because the space for the description is mostly too short. For example my credit institute gives first an information like "ELEKTRON.AUFTRAG 18.04.2006 TANxxxxxx/001" and after this there is the meaningful description. To make it easier to work with that long description my suggestion is to take 2 rows for each transaction. On the left side one can put f.e in the first row date, amount and bankcode, in the second the description. On the right side the first row like it is and in the second the suggested place to stare the transaction. With an view like that you would have a much better overview. Thanks Christoph Schütz Other information:
(Was discussed on gnucash-de already) The point of this enhancement request is that for many banks' transactions, the "description" line is quite long and the interesting part is in the latter half. With the current window layout of the "transaction matcher" window, one can see only the first part of the description line. Therefore this request proposes a two-line view of the imported transactions. This concerns the generic transaction matcher in src/import-export/import-main-matcher.h as used by OFX, HBCI, and MT940 import currently. @Christoph: If you want to, you could create a "mockup window" simply by saving a screenshot of the current importer window, and then modify the relevant part of that screenshot with a graphics program so that it looks the way you would prefer. If you do that, then it will be immediately clear to anyone what kind of GUI modifications you are asking for. To reproduce: Either use a OFX test file in libofx, or the mt940 test file in bug#325170 comment#17 . I will probably attach a modified mt940 file soon that better demonstrates the non-visible part of the description.
Would it be possible to structure the Description column to wrap text to a fixed maximum width?
Doing my next bank OFX import, I noticed that the column that is really wide is the MEMO column. So that is the one that I would like to see a word wrap feature on.
Created attachment 354568 [details] Desired screenshot I nearly submitted an enhancement request for this. Which source files need amending to fix this? I include a mockup screenshot.
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