David,
It sounds like the entire issue is related to the new suggester.
I'd hazard the really old templates are showing up due to spelling
issues as you noted at the end of your post.
As to how to work around that till it is improved, I'm not sure.
I'm using this new feature as a means to correct old spellings at the
moment as a cleanup. I'd suspect that would likely avoid the issues you
are seeing, but of course, that's just a bit too OCD for some, and
certainly not practical if you have a decade or more of transactions in
a book.
There have been many requests over the years to be able to edit
Descriptions independently as a list. That may or may not be useful here
if it is ever implemented.
Until then:
If I'm not mistaken, typing a space (or maybe two) after an undesired
suggestion should abandon that suggestion and enable 'new' entries
without auto-complete. You'd have to do this without tabbing through an
undesired suggestion. Of course, that means you lose auto-complete from
a recent entry too, but it doesn't look like you were able to get it
work right for now anyway.
Regards,
Adrien
On 5/1/23 2:28 PM, David T. via gnucash-user wrote:
Hello,
I am not sure exactly what changes have been implemented in the transaction
entry logic, but I've begun seeing GnuCash offer me ancient transactions as
templates for current data entry. So, instead of giving me a recent
transaction, I end up with a transaction from 12 years ago.
From the prompt, it's not possible to know that this is happening before
accepting the suggestion; once accepted, I have to cancel the transaction and
start over-- if I notice that the transaction is wrong! Moreover, since almost
everything in my financial world has changed during my use of GnuCash, I am
finding that I accidentally put transactions into unplanned and inappropriate
accounts. This is even more troubling since I've found that GnuCash will add
these transactions despite the destination accounts being placeholder accounts.
I am pretty sure that this didn't happen in earlier versions, but I'm known to
be wrong more often than not.
Short of splitting my file apart (which I'm loath to do), is there any way to
alter the suggestion list so that it doesn't offer me outdated transactions?
Can I delete entries from the list? Can I tell it not to use transactions that
involve placeholder accounts?
And on a related note, I've found that the suggester does not always respect different character strings, and
will conflate different strings into one transaction. What I mean is this: I previously entered a transaction
with the description "Payment- Credit Card" (note the spacing with the hyphen). This transaction
transferred money to an account that is now a placeholder account. I now prefer "Payment - Credit
Card" (again, note the spacing with the hyphen). When I type "Payment -" with the preceding
space, I *should* get the new version of the transaction (and that is what displays in the prompt)-- but when
I tab out of the field, the *old* transaction gets inserted instead of the new. I don't understand how this
happens, but it has happened numerous times for me.
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