Transaction entry - tags

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Super simple RFE (for registers when category+tag are combined): when typing category and pressing "/", erase the previous tag so that auto-complete works. Right now, the old tag stays which means a) auto-complete doesn't work and b) I have to manually erase it otherwise I get a "combined tag" like "Education/BobSara" if I try and change from "Education/Sara" to "Education/Bob"...

Rocket J Squirrel

I would not want Quicken to erase the existing tag. A better solution would be for Quicken to select the tag after the user presses "/". The selection would be pending delete; if the user started typing, it would be replaced by the first and subsequent keystrokes. If the user tabbed out of the field instead, the original tag would remain.

[email protected]

That's fine too. But curious - what is the use case where you'd type "/" but yet want the same tag to stay?

Rocket J Squirrel

There isn't really a use case. It's just a matter of not allowing the system to delete anything without the user explicitly performing a Delete (or replace with typing) action of some kind. It would be a surprise to me if "/" performed deletion.

Rocket J Squirrel

When I was looking at this because of this suggestion, I was actually surprised that pressing "/" did not select the tag. That's what I would expect. Instead, it just sits there.

[email protected]

> it just sits there.
Exactly. Annoying when I use "Auto:Fuel/Dick" and "Auto:Fuel/Jane" - Quicken only memorizes that as one entry (a change in tag doesn't result in two different entries), so it only has the most recently used one. If I then have to enter gas for the other person, I can pick from the recalled entry (sat Dick), TAB over to the cat/tag field, and then I'd like to type just "/J" and have it autocomplete to "Jane" (for a complete entry of "Auto:Fuel/Jane"). Instead, I have to type "/", shift-end, and then start typing the tag.

Also, iIf the category field contains "a:b/c" and you type ":", the "a" is kept and "b/c" is deleted. So to be consistent, that should also get tweaked so that just "b" is selected but not deleted until you start to type the new subcategory. And the tag "c" should stay until "/" is typed and then the tag gets selected.

:-)

Quicken Anja

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Separate from how many votes, does the quicken team not see how being able to edit an existing entry and using "/TAG" should set the tag? Not all that different from entering a new entry where "/TAG" sets the tag...

Rocket J Squirrel

I still support this idea.