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

[Cristian Oneț]

2014-09-28 13:54 GMT+03:00 Allan <agander93 at gmail.com>:
> 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.

Allan, since you suggested opening a bug report could you add here [1]
a description of the problem? As far as I understood the reported
problem is that the interest split button is missing but as it can be
seen in the screenshots attached to the report the split button is
actually there.

Regards,
Cristian

[1] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=339474

>
> 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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