Re: nomenclatural clarification - parts of a transaction

2017-09-14 Thread George Riner
Ah, I am confused, I see. I'm entering transactions at the bottom of the screen where the end of the register is, while gnucash is changing information at the top of the screen where I'm not paying attention. So the "notes" field is really singular and only contains 1 note; while there are

Re: nomenclatural clarification - parts of a transaction

2017-09-14 Thread David Carlson
Good call David R, Another point of possible confusion for even long-time users like me is that the column titles will change as the curser moves around in the transaction display, so the user must carefully note the current position of the curser to correctly interpret the column title. David C

Re: nomenclatural clarification - parts of a transaction

2017-09-14 Thread David Reiser
> On Sep 14, 2017, at 12:00 PM, George Riner wrote: > > I may not be clearly following the information about the names of the parts > of a transaction. > > attached screen capture for reference. > > Are these the correct terms for the called-out parts of the split

Re: nomenclatural clarification - parts of a transaction

2017-09-14 Thread prl
A transaction always has a Notes field, but the Notes field is only *visible* in a register if either View>Transaction Log or View>Double Line is set. Peter On 15/09/2017 02:49, D via gnucash-user wrote: George, A transaction will have a note always. A transaction in Gnucash by definition

nomenclatural clarification - parts of a transaction

2017-09-14 Thread George Riner
I may not be clearly following the information about the names of the parts of a transaction. attached screen capture for reference. Are these the correct terms for the called-out parts of the split transaction? part "A" is the "Description" part "B" is the "Memo" parts "C" are each a