Make "Show/Hide Pending Transactions" consistent with QWin GUI

Rocket J Squirrel

The new feature to show/hide pending transactions has been implemented using a completely unique user interface for Quicken. It is in the bottom balance row of the register. There has never before been a command in the balance row, making this something difficult to notice and find, as well as a visual blight on the register.

There are several places to put this command that would be historically consistent with Quicken.

• Preferences
• Account Details
• Register "gear" menu

People are used to looking for options in those places. I suggest "show/hide pending transactions" be moved to one of them.

mrzookie

There is already a global preference setting (that doesn't work at the moment). Is the suggestion for the account level?

Rocket J Squirrel

@mrzookie The global preference was an interim measure. It is gone in R44.20.

mrzookie

Weird. Everything is being done so haphazardly. The Design and Dev teams need some serious changes.

Jim_Harman

Also the implementation in R43.20 is not intuitive at all, to me at least. When I click on the dropdown arrow and pending transactions are hidden, the only selection is "Show pending transactions," with a grayed out explanation below. It changes to "Hide pending transactions" if the pending transactions are currently shown. The only place the pending transactions are currently shown is when I click on the "i" icon to the left of Online Balance.

Newer versions of Quicken may do do this differently; I hope they do.

Also confusingly, the Show/Hide setting also controls whether the pending transactions are included in the balance in the Account bar.

I think all this would be much clearer if the setting were a "Show pending transactions" checkbox rather than the one-choice dropdown as currently implemented, and a separate control that controls whether the pending transactions are included in the Account Bar balance.