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Bug 360556 - Deleting a single transaction split is non-intuitive
Deleting a single transaction split is non-intuitive
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 542537
Product: GnuCash
Classification: Other
Component: Register
git-master
Other All
: Normal major
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Assigned To: David Hampton
Chris Shoemaker
: 343744 347725 476792 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-10-08 05:25 UTC by Paul Dickson
Modified: 2018-06-29 21:13 UTC
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Description Paul Dickson 2006-10-08 05:25:29 UTC 
If you have several splits in a transaction, and the split I want to delete is selected, when I right-click on the split there is no option to delete the split.  The correct option is "Delete Transaction", which doesn't do what you expect but queries whether you want to delete the split.

If you mistaking select "Remove Transaction Splits", it will delete all splits in the transaction.

Please add (or change the "Delete Transaction") an option to "Delete Split".
Comment 1 Christian Stimming 2006-10-09 09:36:17 UTC 
*** Bug 343744 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Christian Stimming 2006-10-09 09:36:25 UTC 
*** Bug 347725 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Christian Stimming 2006-10-09 09:37:12 UTC 
Yes, that's a bug and we need to do something about this. Raising severity because of multiple reports.
Comment 4 Rolf Leggewie 2008-07-11 12:22:09 UTC 
*** Bug 476792 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Rolf Leggewie 2008-07-11 12:23:53 UTC 
current "solution" is to just remove/blank all the fields of the split/line and switch to another split; it will disappear.
Comment 6 Rolf Leggewie 2008-07-11 13:50:38 UTC 
actually, there is an entry to delete both a complete split transaction as well as individual lines from it.  Closing.
Comment 7 Rolf Leggewie 2008-07-12 00:36:17 UTC 
I think I misunderstood that entry.  Reopening for verification.
Comment 8 Richard Gilligan 2008-11-29 05:05:59 UTC 
For me, today, using GnuCash 2.2.6 with MacOS 10.5.5 the contextual menu item "Delete Transaction" does, in fact, remove just the selected split.  

Perhaps the menu item label can be change to "Delete".

The tool tip on the Delete button in the tool bar is also miss leading.  It reads "Delete the current transaction" even when a split is selected and only that split will be deleted.  It could say "Delete Selected item" or "Delete the selected transaction or split".
Comment 9 gjditchfield 2009-11-07 01:12:12 UTC 
These bugs are still present in GnuCash 2.2.9.
Comment 10 Geert Janssens 2011-04-06 19:38:20 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 542537 ***
Comment 11 John Ralls 2018-06-29 21:13:26 UTC 
GnuCash bug tracking has moved to a new Bugzilla host. This bug has been copied to https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=360556. Please update any external references or bookmarks.