Re: Ideas for a 'template' usage?

Andrew <[email protected]>
Newsgroups alt.comp.software.financial.quicken
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 8/6/2023 2:50 PM, Zaidy036 wrote:
> On 8/6/2023 10:52 AM, Andrew wrote:
>> So I don't think Q has a template facility.  I have in one of my NPO 
>> club accounts the need to make a deposit monthly that contains a 
>> number of different categories.
>>
>> What I am think of doing is to make a split transaction with ALL the 
>> categories listed as zero dollars and saving this as a deposit well 
>> into the future (like 12/31/2099).  This way it will simply sit at the 
>> bottom of the checking deposit register and I can copy and paste each 
>> month, and then simply add the individual real amounts.
>>
>> Anyone have any other ideas or thoughts of perhaps how you might 
>> implement such a 'template' facility?
> 
> Do that but have it in bill reminders with auto enter on a given fixed 
> date and then edit it after entry, not in the reminders list.

That's interesting, since I do have this appear as something I need to 
do on a repeating basis...I'll look into putting this in the BILLS 
facility so it auto enters into my register with all the lines 
populated. Thanks for that idea.

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As an quick unrelated aside, I had a thought after my original post that 
I might not have enough lines in a split transaction.  I read early on 
in Q that there was a limit of 30, bit I did test it and I see that 
there is (now?) a 'MORE LINES' box at the bottom of an entry, so it does 
look like I'll have at least the 45 lines I'll need.  Each of my 9 
depositors has 5 lines of unique category entries.

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As a second quick unrelated aside, Before someone asks why I don't make 
9 separate deposits for each individual depositor, I receive a single 
bill with each of these 9 broken down into the 5 categories each with a 
single PAYMENT due amount.  And each of these categories has some debits 
and credits, it's not all a plus transaction for all 45 lines.  This is 
very nice that Q can simply do all the math for me in one swoop and I 
just need to make sure the bottom line matches the totaled deposit due.


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Regards -

- Andrew
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