[Kmymoney] No SPLIT available in Interest field in Dividend Transactions

[Michael CALDER]

G'day Alan,

Thanks for your reply and help.

BUG report has been raised.

Cheers....

Mike

Michael CALDER


On 28/09/14 20:54, Allan wrote:
> On 28/09/14 03:25, Michael CALDER wrote:
>>
>>
>> G'day Alan,
>>
>> My problem relates to New MANUAL entries using the Transaction Input
>> Form when I have my Investment account open in the 'ledger' view.
>>
>> I will now refer to the KDE Help Center Version 4.13.3 - Investment
>> Transactions page.
>>
>> At the top of the page is a graphic which shows 'Buy Shares' in the
>> Activity field. It also shows the SPLIT icon for both the 'Fees' and
>> 'Interest' fields
>>
>> At the bottom of the page is the following:
>>
>>>>>
>> Interest
>>   This is how you enter an interest or dividend payment from an
>> investment. As with fees, if you enter a category, then a field will be
>> shown to the right where you can enter the amount. You can also use the
>> split transaction feature, if required.
>>>>>
>>
>> When I open my Investment Account in ledger view I have the following
>> anomalies/bugs in the Transaction Input Form when the Activity field
>> selection is as follows:
>>
>> 1. Buy shares        NO Interest field
>> 2. Sell shares        NO Interest field
>> 3. Dividend        Interest field without SPLIT Icon
>> 4. Reinvest dividend  NO Account field- Interest field
>> without SPLIT Icon
>> 5. Yield        Interest field without SPLIT Icon
>> 6. Add,Remove & Split    Only Activity, Security and Memo fields (as
>> expected)
>> 7. Interest income    Interest field without SPLIT Icon
>>
>> Therein lies the problem - Interest field cannot accommodate splits.
>>
>> Cheers....
>>
>> Mike
>
> OK Mike
>
> Well, the good news is that here, using the development version, some of
> the missing items are not missing now.
>
> Many months ago, I did a tidy up in this area as there were several
> minor issues.  If I remember correctly, the Buy area had one or two
> fields removed, after discussion on this list, as they were felt to be
> unneeded clutter.
>
> Here is the status now -
>
>> 1. Buy shares   NO Interest field  -- Still no Interest field
>> 2. Sell shares  NO Interest field  -- Interest field is present and
>                                          Split icon shows when category
>                                          is selected
>> 3. Dividend     Interest field no SPLIT Icon -- As for Sell
>> 4. Reinvest     Interest field no SPLIT Icon  -- Unchanged
>> 5. Yield        Interest field without SPLIT Icon -- As for Sell
>> 7. Interest income  Interest field no SPLIT Icon -- As for Sell
>
> Would you raise a bug report please to ensure it gets attended to.
>
> Thanks
>
> Allan
>
>>>
>>> G'day ,
>>>
>>> I am running KMyMoney 4.6.4 on Linux Mint 17 'Qiana' having recently
>>> upgraded from Mint 13 a month ago.
>>>
>>> Amongst my accounts is one for SHARES into which I have been posting
>>> DIVIDENDS as a SPLIT INTEREST transaction successfully for a number of
>>> years.
>>>
>>> The two categories used were DivInc:DivIncFranked and
>>> DivInc:DivIncImpCred
>>>
>>> Since upgrading I no longer have the capacity for a split transaction in
>>> the INTEREST field with any new dividend entries.
>>>
>>> However, if I edit a dividend entry from a couple of months ago the
>>> split transaction correctly shows in the interest field.
>>>
>>> The only split option is in the Fees field
>>>
>>> Is this a bug that should be reported?
>>>
>>> Cheers....
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>
>>> Michael CALDER
>>> _____________________________________________________
>>>
>>> Hi Mike
>>>
>>> Are you talking about manual entries or imported ones?   If imported,
>>> via QIF, OFX, CSV?
>>>
>>> It might be best if you would provide your step by step process, saying
>>> what you expect to happen and what actually happens.
>>>
>>> It might also be worthwhile getting rev. 4.6.6.The Claydoh PPA might
>>> help there.
>>>
>>> Allan
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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