On 2020.03.23 18:26, Jack wrote:
I'm updating the handbook chapter on Categories, and have run into
something I can't explain. If I display the Categories View and
right click on a category, sometimes "Delete" is enabled, and
sometimes it is not. For categories with existing transactions, if
Delete is enabled, I am prompted for another category for reassigning
the transactions. So, mere presence of transactions does not disable
the Delete action.
I've tried actually looking into the xml file, and that has only
confused me further. There seem to be several odd things going on,
and I'm not sure if they are related or not. In these examples, both
categories of interest also have matching payees.
- In many cases, the transaction itself has a MEMO which is not
visible anywhere in the GUI, which only shows the MEMOs of the
appropriate SPLIT, depending on which ledger (account, category,
payee) I look at.
- I don't see any consistency or pattern in whether there is a PAYEE
in the split for the CATEGORY, although I think it is almost always
present in the split for the account. There also seems to be no way
to change this, as you can't edit a transaction in the context of a
category.
Is there something I'm not understanding, or might this just be
another case where I have strange data?
Jack
I can add another observation - when looking at the Category ledger, if
there is no memo, then the display section in the ledger shows the
Transfer to: field, but if there IS something in the memo field, the
details don't show either the memo or the Transfer to: account. I'm
hoping this is just an anomaly in the ledger code when displaying a
category. When looking at the ledger for either the Payee or the
Account, all fields are appropriately shown in the details column.
