On Monday, 28 November 2022 11:19:56 GMT Stan Brown wrote: > On 2022-11-27 19:37, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > > Personally, I use the Description field for *all* of my transactions as > > a Payor/Payee line. Actual descriptive info I put in the Notes and/or > > Memo fields. > > > > In that case, I can simply run a Transaction Report filtered on the name > > of the Payor/Payee and see the desired activity. > > The trouble with that is that the text fields aren't validated. It's > fine if you never, ever, make a typo; but I'm not perfect. If I make a > typo in an account name, I know it immediately and can fix it. But if I > mistype "Some Vendor" as "SomeVendor" or "Some Vendoir" I may not > notice, and then any report that filters on Description will be incomplete. >
I'd respectfully suggest that Autofill is your friend here; Typos in the Payee should be fairly hard (but not impossible; your point is certainly taken!) to get into place, once you are on more than one txn to any given vendor. 0.02 Maf. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.