[Kmymoney-devel] Warning when there is more than one payee or memo

[Jack]

On 2010.04.28 21:19, Alvaro Soliverez wrote:
> Hello all,
> sparked by a recent discussion, I think we could do more to warn the  
> user when there is the unusual situation that a transaction has more  
> than one payee or memo.
> As you may know, the payees and memos are stored per split, not in  
> the transaction, so there may be situations when they difer. That is  
> possible, and desired, so we should improve the usability for those  
> cases.
> I think we could show a warning sign and a tooltip over it could  
> explain the user the situation.
> That's simpler to do when using the transaction form, but it might  
> get trickier when the editing is done directly in the register.
> Also, the split editor should show the payee when it makes sense (if  
> the split is an asset/liability, if I understand correctly).
> 
> What do you think? Are there other possibilities you can think of?

If nothing else, it might be useful to have a tool or report just to  
identify all such cases.  It might even be done first as a standalone  
tool.

Jack