Re: Adding a 'number' field to splits

2011-09-22 Thread Derek Atkins
Geert Janssens janssens-ge...@telenet.be writes: I know that the business functions write to this field. Most of the transactions created by the business functions contains Invoice, Bill or Payment. While doing the credit notes analysis I didn't encounter any function so far that relied on

Re: Adding a 'number' field to splits

2011-09-21 Thread Alex Aycinena
John, On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 4:09 PM, John Ralls jra...@ceridwen.us wrote: Alex, Sounds like a good argument to just use the Action field for your numbers. Except for option 3, no changes required to anything except your custom reports; option 3 can be implemented as easily with Action

Re: Adding a 'number' field to splits

2011-09-21 Thread Geert Janssens
On woensdag 21 september 2011, Alex Aycinena wrote: John, On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 4:09 PM, John Ralls jra...@ceridwen.us wrote: Alex, Sounds like a good argument to just use the Action field for your numbers. Except for option 3, no changes required to anything except your custom

Re: Adding a 'number' field to splits

2011-09-21 Thread John Ralls
On Sep 21, 2011, at 12:14 PM, Geert Janssens wrote: On woensdag 21 september 2011, Alex Aycinena wrote: John, On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 4:09 PM, John Ralls jra...@ceridwen.us wrote: Alex, Sounds like a good argument to just use the Action field for your numbers. Except for option 3, no

Re: Adding a 'number' field to splits

2011-09-18 Thread John Ralls
On Sep 18, 2011, at 3:10 PM, Alex Aycinena wrote: John, On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 4:43 PM, John Ralls jra...@ceridwen.us wrote: There are already two fields in Splits which are available for random use: Action and Memo. You could set up your report so that if the Transaction's Num

Re: Adding a 'number' field to splits

2011-09-17 Thread Wm Tarr
On 2011-09-16 20:48, Alex Aycinena wrote: Currently gnucash has a 'number' field at the transaction-level so that the 'num' field displayed on the register for each split is the same as that displayed on the register for each other split of the same transaction. Thing is the number field in the

Re: Adding a 'number' field to splits

2011-09-17 Thread John Ralls
On Sep 16, 2011, at 1:36 PM, Alex Aycinena wrote: Suppose you buy a car using a check from one account as part of your down payment, a check from a second account as the rest of the down payment, you take out a loan for the remainder, and you pay some car registration expenses. Today you

Adding a 'number' field to splits

2011-09-16 Thread Alex Aycinena
Currently gnucash has a 'number' field at the transaction-level so that the 'num' field displayed on the register for each split is the same as that displayed on the register for each other split of the same transaction. I have spent time to add an additional 'number' field at the split-level so

Re: Adding a 'number' field to splits

2011-09-16 Thread Derek Atkins
The current transaction number is designed to be the Check Number. It's the same on all splits because the Credit and Debit of a check-based transaction do not need to have different numbers, and it's good to be able to look in an expense account and see that some transaction came from check #x.

Re: Adding a 'number' field to splits

2011-09-16 Thread Alex Aycinena
Derek On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Derek Atkins de...@ihtfp.com wrote: The current transaction number is designed to be the Check Number. I'm aware that that is the case now, but I want to provide the option to use the new field for that purpose instead. How the fields are used is a matter