This may be a terminology issue, or a misunderstanding on my part, but
if you have say, more than one split from Checking and you want to apply
one of them as a payment, GnuCash will do so, but it will ask you which
one you want to assign.
The other side of this coin is that you can't pay more
I believe it's not possible to assign specific splits to as a payment to a
bill. You can only assign complete transactions and from that point on GnuCash
will manage the Accounts Payable part of that transaction. That does
effectively mean that if your payment transaction has more than one split
I was trying to assign a payment to a transaction inside a split (a
parent transaction). However, to my surprise, this action resulted not
only the child entity assigned as a payment, but also the rest of the
siblings merged together and assigned as a payment to the same bill. I
ended up with