I hope we don't suffer from "pride of authorship". I've seen, read and experienced enough issues with the current process that it begs for the great coders of this terrific product to listen and improve on this process. Thanks to all who create and manage this FREE tool.
On Tue, Jun 6, 2023 at 2:36 PM Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > You or anyone for the case of existing vs. new. > > Honestly, I haven't had any issue with the feature at all and over 90% > of my transactions are all touching the same source account so my list > is potentially very large. I've only found a handful of variant > spellings for payees, and corrected them right away. But apparently > mileage varies as there is a non-zero contingent that is having problems. > > It *does* narrow down the list as you keep typing, perhaps folks are > expecting a 'begins with' search and don't like to type more than 2 > characters? > > I'd at least think a 'begins with' type search would be better, and more > like how the previous auto-fill worked. > > I'm not opposed to an independent table of payees if that happens, but I > can imagine it being a mess eventually, and then requests for copying > lists to different account registers, or syncing them up, etc. > > Regards, > Adrien > > On 6/6/23 10:53 AM, David Carlson wrote: > > Adrien, > > > > Who are you asking to provide an example? > > My point was that the manual editing method that you suggested couldn't > be > > used if the existing descriptions must be kept. > > In my data file that is often the case. > > I agree that there is a lot of 'noise' in the drop down list of > suggestions > > caused by searching existing transactions to populate this list. > > > > I think that such a list would best be populated from an independent > table > > which would be entirely new to GnuCash. It could be called 'Payees' and > it > > should be independent for each account. > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > _______________________________________________ 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.
