unexpected presence of a payee in an investment transaction

[aga]

On 15/06/16 03:05, Jack wrote:
> 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).
>

Sorry, but still trying to get my head around this!  As I understand it, 
when you view the Payees view, you see this payee, and when you select 
it, you get a list of the transactions involved.  One of those is an 
investment and you should see the account name and details, etc.  Where 
does your payee name appear?  If you then double click that transaction, 
you go to Ledger view, and can see the security name and details, which, 
as I see it, shows the investment activity type.  I don't see anywhere a 
Payee field.

If you create a new investment transaction, again there is no Payee field.

Is this the case, and your predicament?  Nowhere to edit a payee field.

If so, then I've no idea how it came to be created.

In your April example, do you have that OFX file to hand to try 
reimporting?  Or can you re-direct-connect.  If you are able to do this, 
temporarily remove any existing payee of that name and any matching.

If that doesn't show it again, I just don't know, and can only think 
your file got corrupted.  Your only option then would be the old XML 
edit edit, as far as I can see.  But I didn't tell you that!

Allan


> 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?
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