[moneydance] Newbie Startup

[Gordon Alley]

The MD system of "clairvoyance" for the categories definitely has some
quirks.
I've found that, at any level of the category, if I continue typing correct
characters after it finds the correct match, it may change to something
completely wrong! This often happens before I see that it has already
matched what I was typing. I would think I should be able to type a complete
category path (including colons) and have it hold the match, but it doesn't
seem to work that way.
Also, I often cannot get it to match on a subcategory after typing the ":",
and have to resort to using the popup menu.
-Gordon

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 6:18 PM, Fuzzy Fox <fox at foxtaur.com> wrote:

> Katahdin <MoneyDance at intermod.net> wrote:
> >
> > Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but it seems to find the cat based on
> > the 1st letter, skips around, and ignores the subcats..
>
> This is correct; Moneydance only finds top-level categories with the
> first character you type.  But once you have selected that top level
> with just one or two characters, you can type ":" and choose the next
> level category, then ":" and the next level.
>
> It's not something you're doing wrong; this is how Moneydance was
> designed to work.  If you would like it to work differently, I would
> suggest that you file an enhancement request to that effect.
>
> Since Moneydance tends to remember the category used whenever you pay
> money to the same Payee again, it doesn't seem like you should have to
> be re-entering the category over and over.
>
> --
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