Shortcuts needed to speed up work
Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2016 8:22 pm
I've been looking all over for keyboard shortcuts to improve and speed up my working with the transactions.
For instance, after importing a CSV file it is usually needed to fix the payees and categories for all the imported transactions.
From what I have understood, while in the Account View pane, if I press R or U it helps me to reconcile and to unreconcile a given highlighted transaction. But I think that's it, right? No more shortcuts, right?
We should have shortcuts like:
P - open a list of possible payees for a given highlighted transaction
C - open a list of possible categories for a given highlighted transaction
D - open a calendar to set another date for a given highlighted transaction
S - open a list of possible categories to be added as a split transaction
N - open a box to input the number of the transaction
ALT-N or CTRL-N or SUPER-N - open a text box to input/edit the notes field
Right now, all we can do is highlight the transaction and press enter.
There, a child window with opens up to Edit transaction. Then we have to TAB all over the the Edit transaction window.
What's the con of using this method? You not only have to TAB as many times as needed to go from the first field until the one you need to edit but then you also need to hit the space bar to push the categories button or the "... buttons" for numbers and frequent notes.
What's even worse, the payes field is a combo-box which is also free to input text. You can browse with TAB until the payees combo box but then I think there isn't any way you can push the combo-box button so that you can choose from one of the previously created payees...
I guess this won't be possible for 1.3.0 but do you think we could have this for the subsequent releases?
I love the way MMEX looks and feels and all the reports and how the import works with a wizard and without breaking the balance as some other finance apps do.
But not having shortcuts and a way to edit the transactions faster (like for instance gnucash) is a big drawback...
Or am I missing something on the GUI that allows me to do just what I need?
Thanks in advance.
Cheers
For instance, after importing a CSV file it is usually needed to fix the payees and categories for all the imported transactions.
From what I have understood, while in the Account View pane, if I press R or U it helps me to reconcile and to unreconcile a given highlighted transaction. But I think that's it, right? No more shortcuts, right?
We should have shortcuts like:
P - open a list of possible payees for a given highlighted transaction
C - open a list of possible categories for a given highlighted transaction
D - open a calendar to set another date for a given highlighted transaction
S - open a list of possible categories to be added as a split transaction
N - open a box to input the number of the transaction
ALT-N or CTRL-N or SUPER-N - open a text box to input/edit the notes field
Right now, all we can do is highlight the transaction and press enter.
There, a child window with opens up to Edit transaction. Then we have to TAB all over the the Edit transaction window.
What's the con of using this method? You not only have to TAB as many times as needed to go from the first field until the one you need to edit but then you also need to hit the space bar to push the categories button or the "... buttons" for numbers and frequent notes.
What's even worse, the payes field is a combo-box which is also free to input text. You can browse with TAB until the payees combo box but then I think there isn't any way you can push the combo-box button so that you can choose from one of the previously created payees...
I guess this won't be possible for 1.3.0 but do you think we could have this for the subsequent releases?
I love the way MMEX looks and feels and all the reports and how the import works with a wizard and without breaking the balance as some other finance apps do.
But not having shortcuts and a way to edit the transactions faster (like for instance gnucash) is a big drawback...
Or am I missing something on the GUI that allows me to do just what I need?
Thanks in advance.
Cheers