Op zondag 24 maart 2019 02:47:37 CET schreef David Cousens: > Patrick, > > When the Transaction is opened with the split button, the Description field > name should change to Memo. There are other changes in the headings as > described in the documentation ( > https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v3/C/gnucash-help/trans-multi-enter.html). If > my understanding is correct, each split of a transaction has its own Memo > field while the Description field is attached to the transaction which > consists of 2 or more splits. The same description should also come up if > you open the transaction in another register that there is a split to. You > can enter different information in the Memo field if you wish. > > I think the importer matches on the Description field for the transaction by > tokenizing its content and matching to the tokenized forms of the > description field of existing transactions which is weighted along with the > matching of amounts, dates, etc. I don't think the Memo field is involved > in matching AFAIK but I haven't checked the code out to see. Geert may be > able to comment on that as he is more familiar with the code than I am. > > I think you can specify the Memo field in the multisplit format as well as > the Description field. I am away from home at the moment so I can't check > for sure. > > David
That explains it very well indeed. In short: transactions have a description, splits have a memo. If you want each individual split to have some descriptive information, you can add this in the memo field (which is also supported by the importer). If you want the whole transaction to have some descriptive information, you can add this in the transaction's description field. And as David says, the csv importer will use the description field (and all other transaction related fields) to determine transaction boundaries. As the memo fields is a related to splits its contents will not affect this boundary detection. Geert _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
