unexpected presence of a payee in an investment transaction

[Jack]

I don't want to delete the payee totally, I want to remove it from some  
buy share transactions, and I don't see it displayed in the ledger  
anywhere, either in the investment account, the brokerage account, and  
no explicit mention in the payee display (which is not editable anyway).

On 2016.06.14 21:57, allan wrote:
> 
> 
> I'm not sure I understand so excuse me if I've got it wrong.You have  
> a payee you want to delete but can't see how?  Why, what happens when  
> you try?  Do you have any matching set'?
> Allan 
> 
> 
> 
> Sent from my Samsung device
> 
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Jack <ostroffjh at users.sourceforge.net>
> Date: 14/06/2016  23:07  (GMT+00:00)
> To: kmymoney-devel at kde.org
> Subject: Re: unexpected presence of a payee in an investment  
> transaction
> 
> On 2016.06.14 17:36, aga wrote:
> > On 14/06/16 20:59, Jack wrote:
> >> I was tracking down a recent payment, and so was looking at the  
> Payee
> >> Veiw for a payee "MetLife".  Most of the transactions are plain 
> >> checks.
> >> However, there was one investment transaction.  It was for  
> purchase 
> >> of a
> >> security "METLIFE INC     COM" with the funds coming from the  
> default
> >> brokerage account for that investment account.  Nowhere in the 
> >> ledger do
> >> I see any mention of the Payee MetLife.  (Yes, it's the same  
> company 
> >> - I
> >> own shares in it, and pay it for insurance premiums - completely
> >> unrelated activities.)  I have not yet dug into the actual KMY  
> file, 
> >> but
> >> I'm really curious why there is any payee involved in a "buy  
> shares"
> >> transaction with no fees involved.  I believe all the relevant
> >> transactions were imported by OFX, either direct connect or file 
> >> import
> >> (libofx, not aqbanking).
> >>
> >> Any explanations?
> 
> > Was it a recent transaction?  There was a time when a payee was 
> > required, but that was removed by popular request.
> 
> I actually found several more from 2014, but this one was just from 
> this April.  However, if it matched to the older ones, I can see it 
> would continue to use the same payee as the older transactions.  What  
> I 
> still find odd is that I don't see any way in the standard interface  
> to 
> remove it.  Will I have to manually edit the kmy file?