Re: [GNC] Is there a way to see a list of the invoice description field contents?

Wm,

My comment on not-accumulating splits was a hunch based on how I've seen 
it work, not from reading the code. (though I'm not beyond taking a peek 
eventually)

I'm also a bit more clear now on what Frank was after.

There is no drop-down for split memos, (which is what line-items are, or 
are analogous to) but they can and do auto-complete as you type, just 
like any split in a manual transaction. (which triggered my hunch above) 
It is also possible that the auto-complete code was simply also 
implemented for Business documents line-items and is completely 
unrelated to the corresponding register memos. (thinking more about how 
GnuCash is designed as 'sheets' with independent functionality, the 
behavior in question may have to be coded separately for each context, 
rather than inherited)

Either way, since these are not part of the Description 
auto-complete/fill code, there's no corresponding code to get a 
drop-down list.

Perhaps that could be an RFE: "add drop-down feature to Memo & Line-Item 
fields". ('Notes' field might be nice too for some folks) The Action 
field already has it, though it only shows you a hard-coded list that 
can't be user-edited. (you can type anything you want in the field though)

Regards,
Adrien

On 8/25/26 07:46, Wm Tarr wrote:
> I'm having a play with a copy of an old book that used the Business 
> functions but can't get Invoice entry to offer me an autocomplete list 
> regardless of the Accumulate Splits setting, I just get the "start of 
> field" completion and that seems to work across the entries table.  If 
> it is working for you there must be something else that makes it work. 
> Any clues?
> 
> database level: I'm wondering if it is something to do with the business 
> document lines being stored in a different table (entries) to the 
> accounting splits (splits) and the autocomplete only sees the splits 
> table entries.

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