Turn off autofill of transaction Payees

[markd]

Is there a way to turn off autofill on the Payee/Issuing column in the transactions tab?

It's frustrating when I bring in accounts from an account statement, then want to rename certain payees to keep everything clear and consistent, but I can't because of the autofill 'feature'.

For example:
* The imported bank statement may have entered the payee as 'TEST COMPANY INC 42085'
* Then when I try to rename it to just 'Test Company' the 'INC 42085' is suffixed after it in grey, and when I exit the field it automatically refills to include the suffix as well as putting everything back into ALL-CAPS. Leaving me with 'TEST COMPANY INC 42085' when I just wanted 'Test Company'.

The only work-around I have found for this so far is to add a double space after the 'Test Company' to clear the field. But this solution is inelegant, because it saves the double space, which means 'Test Company ' is saving/exporting, rather than just 'Test Company'.

Is there a setting I'm missing to turn off this 'feature' ?

I've looked in the preferences and thought it might be 'Activate Transaction Auto-Completion' which I've turned off, but the problem continues.

Is anyone else having this issue? I've tried searching the forums, but no-one seems to have mentioned it. Maybe I'm the only one trying to clean up my payees?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

Mark.

 

[stanbusk]

Ok, I have fixed that for next version. The transaction payee auto-complete will get deactivated after pressing the delete key. That will fix your problem.

 

[markd]

Thanks Stan, excellent! Can't wait for it

 

[markd]

Hi Stan,

Have been patiently waiting for the updated version with this feature. Could you possibly give an ETA on when the next version will be available?

Cheers,

Mark.

 

[stanbusk]

It will be available mid november. We are adding some new features and we are not done yet.

 

[markd]

No worries, thanks heaps for the update!