[Kmymoney] show notes in category selection

aga agander93 at gmail.com
Tue Mar 24 23:03:43 UTC 2015


See below.

On 24/03/15 19:50, hugo borrell wrote:
> Hello again,
>
> I found a strange behaviour about this issue : the note AND payee are
> hidden in the "category" view if the operation never was edited
> (straightly imported from OFX bank account file). If I edit operation
> and save (without any changes necessary), than payee AND note (usually
> the same) appears in the "category" view.
>
> This means I would appreciate a plugin to open and close all operations
> so as to let payee and note visible in the category view :-)
>
> More seriously, "validation" of operation after import should be enough
> to do this, but I don't know how it really works there.
>
> Thank you;
>
> Hugo
>
> 2015-03-24 13:40 GMT+01:00 Alvaro Soliverez <asoliverez at kde.org
> <mailto:asoliverez at kde.org>>:
>
>     Hi Hugo,
>     You can see all notes in the split editor dialog, or running a
>     transaction report.
>
>     Having notes per split gives you the possibility to add more
>     fine-grained comments on your transactions. But it can be puzzling
>     given we try to hide that in the general view. It's the usual
>     struggle between powerful features and ease of use, and we don't
>     always get it right.
>
>     Regards,
>     Alvaro
>
>
>     On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 9:31 AM hugo borrell <hugoborrell at gmail.com
>     <mailto:hugoborrell at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         Hello,
>
>
>
>         2015-03-21 1:27 GMT+01:00 aga <agander93 at gmail.com
>         <mailto:agander93 at gmail.com>>:
>
>
>
>
>             Yes, forget about double clicking, but displaying full
>             entries may help.
>
>             Allan
>
>
>         I did try this, but it doesn't help. Reading your answers, I
>         guess this is the "normal" behaviour of KMM, which seems weard
>         to me since the "notes" field should show the same in the
>         Ledger" view as in the "Category" view.
>
>         Annoying to check that categories are correct, but as mentionned
>         earlier, this might not be a priority for this excellent software.
>
>         I thank you all for answering,
>
>         Cheers,
>
>         Hugo

Just another thought.

Do you view your transactions 'in line'?

Does it show what you want if you use the transaction form instead? 
That should show you the memo (note?) for the selected transaction 
without having to double-click.

Allan


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