Question: In an asset account is there a way to view individual line items from a split transaction recorded in a different account? Here's my situation: I am cleaning up all transactions related to my video purchases and created a new asset account named [Video Collection] with the intent that I will use search/replace to find existing video categories and replace with new tags (VHS, DVD, HD DVD, Blu-ray, 4K) then do a search/replace to change category to the new [Video Collection] account. Reports weren't cutting it for me in my goal to catalog my collection in a new external video collection program, so the goal was to be able to see all my video purchase in one register where I can interactively sort by any column and clean up the memos, mark them cleared in this register when I've cataloged them in the external program, etc.
It's worked great for purchases where there's exactly one video purchased.
But the problem is that when I have a purchase with multiple splits where more than one is assigned the category of [Video Collection], when I go to the Video Collection asset account it only shows the grand total for that purchase and I can't see the individual line items from the purchase in this asset account.
Example:In [CreditCard] account, enter a new transaction:
Payee="Test"
Memo="Add 4 splits"
Charge=110.00
SPLIT:
1. Category=[Video Collection]; Memo="line 1"; Amount = 1.00
2. Category=[Video Collection]; Memo="line 2"; Amount = 2.00
3. Category=[Video Collection]; Memo="line 3"; Amount = 3.00
4. Category=[Video Collection]; Memo="line 4"; Amount = 4.00
5. Category=[Video Collection]; Memo="line 5 (zero)"; Amount = 0.00
6. Category=[House:Electronics]; Memo="something else"; Amount = 100.00
SPLIT TOTAL: 110.00
TRANSACTION TOTAL: 110.00
In the [Video Collection] asset account this shows up as:
Payee="Test"
Memo="line 1" << the memo from the first line of the split
Category=[CreditCard]
Increase=10.00 << the sum of the split line items for [Video collection] transfers
Amount=10.00
And there's NO INIDICATION in the Asset account that this is a sum from a split from the transfer account, so I find it misleading that it doesn't reflect that here, and that it uses the memo from line 1 of the split versus the credit card memo from the transaction itself.
What I want to see in my [Video Collection] asset account is the individual line items from that split, and I can't see why it won't do this.
I will never reconcile the asset account, there's no loan associated with it, so is there a way to force Quicken to show the individual line items in the asset account?
If not, I'll have to undo everything and go back to standalone categories and reports, which is not ideal for me...
Appreciate any input.
Thanks.
Drew
