[Kmymoney-devel] Templates for splitting transactions

[Paul Menzel]

Dear KMyMoney folks,


this is a follow up for the identically named thread I started on
kmymoney2-developers [1] and I also created a ticket in the KDE bug
tracking system #284972 [2].

Am Mittwoch, den 26.10.2011, 20:03 +0200 schrieb Thomas Baumgart:

> on Tuesday 25 October 2011 23:47:19 Paul Menzel wrote:
> 
> > Am Dienstag, den 25.10.2011, 16:29 +0100 schrieb David Houlden:
> > > On Tuesday 25 October 2011 16:05:32 Paul Menzel wrote:
> > > > Am Dienstag, den 25.10.2011, 14:17 +0100 schrieb David Houlden:
> > > > > On Tuesday 25 October 2011 12:01:07 Paul Menzel wrote:
> > > > > > I am using KMyMoney 4.6.0 and have the following use case.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Members of my club pay a membership fee transferring it to the
> > > > > > club’s bank account. Now the membership fee has to be split up to
> > > > > > different categories.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > 100 € are transferred. 10 € should be mapped to category insurance,
> > > > > > 20 € to category material and 70 € to category division judo.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Is there a way to avoid doing that manually over 50 times? I could
> > > > > > imagine right clicking a transaction and choosing a template Judo
> > > > > > for example which then would fill in these splittings.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Is there another way to do this in KMyMoney already?
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > [1]
> > > > > > http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/online-manual/details.ledgers.spl
> > > > > > it.html
> > > > > 
> > > > > If you have a transaction in the ledger you can right click on it and
> > > > > select duplicate. This will create a copy of the original transaction
> > > > > with all the same splits. That may help.
> > > > 
> > > > thank you for this hint. Unfortunately I would still need to change the
> > > > payee name then manually.
> > > 
> > > By payee I assume you mean the name of the member who is paying their
> > > fee.
> > 
> > You are correct. I am sorry for the confusion. Is payer the correct word
> > here?
> > 
> > > I can't see how you can avoid having to enter that no matter what the
> > > solution.
> > 
> > The banking program (QBankManager with AqBanking) is getting the
> > transactions for me and I import those with KMyMoney and have the
> > payer’s/member’s name automatically.
> 
> How do you get those into KMyMoney then? Or do you actually use the KMyMoney 
> plugin to download the transactions?  Or do you run a 'direct debit' 
> (Lastschrifteinzug for the Germans among you) using QBankManager?

I am getting the transactions with HBCI using QBankManager. Then I
export those and import them into KMyMoney.

> Where do you keep membership information? Is that a separate system? I have an 
> idea how to solve the problem but need some more information about your setup 
> and processing.

As talked on IRC #kmymoney it is still a simple spreadsheet (Calc
document) but I could convert that to something else easily.

> p.s. Since it covers KMyMoney 4.x we should follow up on this on 
> kmymoney at kde.org.  A good idea to switch mailing lists :)

True. Done to kmymoney-devel.

> p.p.s. Did not see an answer yet on IRC

Thank you for the reminder.


Thanks,

Paul


[1] http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=1319579239.6723.6.camel%40mattotaupa&forum_name=kmymoney2-developer
[2] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=284972
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