Navigating Around Register

[Keith Bates-2]

I've only been using moneydance for about 6 years so please forgive
this simple question :)

How do you move to the last transaction on a register? Sometimes md
opens an account at the first entry and if you have years of
transactions it's slow to scroll down the list.

I've tried every combination of End, Page-Down etc that are the usual
short-cuts.

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[John W Foster]

This is a thing I also have asked about several times. Sean & crew...
how hard would it be to have a "feature" added that allows us to 'hide'
reconciled transactions. This was something I could do with MS Money
that has never appeared in MD.
Thanks!
-  
John Foster


On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 10:31 +1000, Keith Bates wrote:

> I've only been using moneydance for about 6 years so please forgive
> this simple question :)
>
> How do you move to the last transaction on a register? Sometimes md
> opens an account at the first entry and if you have years of
> transactions it's slow to scroll down the list.
>
> I've tried every combination of End, Page-Down etc that are the usual
> short-cuts.
>

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[Fuzzy Fox]

Keith Bates <keith@...> wrote:
>
> I've only been using moneydance for about 6 years so please forgive
> this simple question :)

I have used MD for... a good long while.  Maybe not that long.

> How do you move to the last transaction on a register? Sometimes
> md opens an account at the first entry and if you have years of
> transactions it's slow to scroll down the list.

I have to confess that in my years of using MD, I have never seen it do
this.  It always opens on the last transaction, never the first.

> I've tried every combination of End, Page-Down etc that are the usual
> short-cuts.

Do you have a mouse?  I use that.  Grab the slider and drag it all the
way to the bottom.  A keyboard shortcut would be nice, though.

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[Keith Bates-2]

On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:12:36 -0500
Fuzzy Fox <fox@...> wrote:

> Keith Bates <keith@...> wrote:

> > How do you move to the last transaction on a register? Sometimes
> > md opens an account at the first entry and if you have years of
> > transactions it's slow to scroll down the list.
>
> I have to confess that in my years of using MD, I have never seen it
> do this.  It always opens on the last transaction, never the first.

I'm not sure what the events are that lead to it opening at the first
entry. Usually it does go to the end, even when changing to different
accounts, but every now and again I find myself having to scroll down.
>
> > I've tried every combination of End, Page-Down etc that are the
> > usual short-cuts.
>
> Do you have a mouse?  I use that.  Grab the slider and drag it all the
> way to the bottom.  A keyboard shortcut would be nice, though.
>
grabbing and moving the slider is rather a slow process when you've got
several hundred transactions- and it relies on a straight hand. I use
the scroll wheel but it's quite tedious.

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[Jim Karcz]

Keith,

On my Debian Lenny system, the page-up, page-down, Home and end keys
navigate in check registers.

-Jim

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 8:31 PM, Keith Bates <keith@...> wrote:

> On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:12:36 -0500
> Fuzzy Fox <fox@...> wrote:
>
> > Keith Bates <keith@...> wrote:
>
> > > How do you move to the last transaction on a register? Sometimes
> > > md opens an account at the first entry and if you have years of
> > > transactions it's slow to scroll down the list.
> >
> > I have to confess that in my years of using MD, I have never seen it
> > do this.  It always opens on the last transaction, never the first.
>
> I'm not sure what the events are that lead to it opening at the first
> entry. Usually it does go to the end, even when changing to different
> accounts, but every now and again I find myself having to scroll down.
> >
> > > I've tried every combination of End, Page-Down etc that are the
> > > usual short-cuts.
> >
> > Do you have a mouse?  I use that.  Grab the slider and drag it all the
> > way to the bottom.  A keyboard shortcut would be nice, though.
> >
> grabbing and moving the slider is rather a slow process when you've got
> several hundred transactions- and it relies on a straight hand. I use
> the scroll wheel but it's quite tedious.
>
> --
> God bless you,
>
>
> Keith Bates
>
> www.new-life.org.au
>
> If you don't have a reason to live
>
> JESUS IS THE ANSWER!
>
> Ask him into your life today...
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[Gordon Alley-2]

This happens to me fairly frequently. Just before posting this reply, I
opened MD, and then right-clicked a credit card account (to open it in a new
window). The window opened with a transaction dated 7/23/2007 at the bottom,
about 1/3 of the way back through the transaction history. I hit CMD-N to
open a new transaction (the scroll button didn't move), entered a
transaction for today, and hit Enter. THEN the window jumped down to the
latest transaction.
After that, I went back to the home page, and right clicked another credit
card account. That account opened to the FIRST transaction in the account,
waaayyy back in 1999.

Just for reference, if I display the oldest transaction in my primary
checking account (01/02/1999), I have to hit page-down 56 times to get to
the last transaction. It takes about 8 seconds if I hold page-down and let
it auto-repeat. Dragging the vertical scroll thumb is the fastest method.
This is on a 24" iMac with the window opened to just about full screen
height.

-Gordon

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 8:12 PM, Fuzzy Fox <fox@...> wrote:

> Keith Bates <keith@...> wrote:
> >
> > I've only been using moneydance for about 6 years so please forgive
> > this simple question :)
>
> I have used MD for... a good long while.  Maybe not that long.
>
> > How do you move to the last transaction on a register? Sometimes
> > md opens an account at the first entry and if you have years of
> > transactions it's slow to scroll down the list.
>
> I have to confess that in my years of using MD, I have never seen it do
> this.  It always opens on the last transaction, never the first.
>
> > I've tried every combination of End, Page-Down etc that are the usual
> > short-cuts.
>
> Do you have a mouse?  I use that.  Grab the slider and drag it all the
> way to the bottom.  A keyboard shortcut would be nice, though.
>
> --
>  Fuzzy Fox <fox@...>
>  "Why a man would want a wife is a big mystery to some people.
>   Why a man would want two wives is a bigamystery."
>
> --

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[Keith Bates-2]

On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:55:54 -0500
"Jim Karcz" <jkarcz@...> wrote:

> Keith,
>
> On my Debian Lenny system, the page-up, page-down, Home and end keys
> navigate in check registers.
>
> -Jim
>

Did you just mess with my computer, Jim? Those keys are now working,
but they weren't ever before. I've tried home and end, page up and down
plus the same keys with Ctl, Alt and Shift with no result. Now it works.

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Thank you.


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[Gordon Alley-2]

Oh, one more thing. I just remembered that my END key does jump me directly
to the latest transaction. I guess I got caught up in the spirit of the
thread. :-)
-Gordon

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 9:12 PM, Gordon Alley <gordon@...>wrote:

> This happens to me fairly frequently. Just before posting this reply, I
> opened MD, and then right-clicked a credit card account (to open it in a new
> window). The window opened with a transaction dated 7/23/2007 at the bottom,
> about 1/3 of the way back through the transaction history. I hit CMD-N to
> open a new transaction (the scroll button didn't move), entered a
> transaction for today, and hit Enter. THEN the window jumped down to the
> latest transaction.
> After that, I went back to the home page, and right clicked another credit
> card account. That account opened to the FIRST transaction in the account,
> waaayyy back in 1999.
>
> Just for reference, if I display the oldest transaction in my primary
> checking account (01/02/1999), I have to hit page-down 56 times to get to
> the last transaction. It takes about 8 seconds if I hold page-down and let
> it auto-repeat. Dragging the vertical scroll thumb is the fastest method.
> This is on a 24" iMac with the window opened to just about full screen
> height.
>
> -Gordon
>
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 8:12 PM, Fuzzy Fox <fox@...> wrote:
>
>> Keith Bates <keith@...> wrote:
>> >
>> > I've only been using moneydance for about 6 years so please forgive
>> > this simple question :)
>>
>> I have used MD for... a good long while.  Maybe not that long.
>>
>> > How do you move to the last transaction on a register? Sometimes
>> > md opens an account at the first entry and if you have years of
>> > transactions it's slow to scroll down the list.
>>
>> I have to confess that in my years of using MD, I have never seen it do
>> this.  It always opens on the last transaction, never the first.
>>
>> > I've tried every combination of End, Page-Down etc that are the usual
>> > short-cuts.
>>
>> Do you have a mouse?  I use that.  Grab the slider and drag it all the
>> way to the bottom.  A keyboard shortcut would be nice, though.
>>
>> --
>>  Fuzzy Fox <fox@...>
>>  "Why a man would want a wife is a big mystery to some people.
>>   Why a man would want two wives is a bigamystery."
>>
>> --
> Gordon B. Alley
> http://www.gordonalley.com
>

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[Rinaldi J. Montessi-3]

Fuzzy Fox wrote:

> Keith Bates <keith@...> wrote:
>>
>> I've only been using moneydance for about 6 years so please forgive
>> this simple question :)
>
> I have used MD for... a good long while.  Maybe not that long.
>
>> How do you move to the last transaction on a register? Sometimes
>> md opens an account at the first entry and if you have years of
>> transactions it's slow to scroll down the list.
>
> I have to confess that in my years of using MD, I have never seen it do
> this.  It always opens on the last transaction, never the first.

I see this (opening on top transaction) if I have done a search on the
account.

>> I've tried every combination of End, Page-Down etc that are the usual
>> short-cuts.
>
> Do you have a mouse?  I use that.  Grab the slider and drag it all the
> way to the bottom.  A keyboard shortcut would be nice, though.

Here the Home and End keys go to top and bottom of register.

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[William Barnes]

I have a long-standing problem with Moneydance on my year-old MacBook  
Pro running MacOS 10.5.4. When I open the laptop from sleep, there is  
no MD window, despite MD being the front-most application. I have been  
selecting "About Moneydance" and then closing the windoid that opens,  
which then gives me the MD window with the last register I was using,  
but I don't understand why the Moneydance window disappears upon sleep  
in the first place. I believe this problem started when I switched  
from 10.4 to 10.5, but am not sure.

Any Mac users having this problem also?

William
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[Fuzzy Fox]

Keith Bates <keith@...> wrote:
>
> > On my Debian Lenny system, the page-up, page-down, Home and end keys
> > navigate in check registers.
>
> Did you just mess with my computer, Jim? Those keys are now working,
> but they weren't ever before. I've tried home and end, page up and
> down plus the same keys with Ctl, Alt and Shift with no result. Now it
> works.

What I suspect is that if the transaction that MD opens on is
"selected", meaning you are editing within it, the above keys probably
only move the cursor within the current field being edited.  If you exit
the field (maybe by pressing ESC), then it ought to let you navigate the
register with the above keys.

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[Gordon Alley-2]

I have no idea if this is related to the problem you're having, but I've
noticed (and I've seen reports from others also) that MD's windows don't
always play nice with the Spaces feature in OS X 10.5. Often, when I'm in
one desktop space, and use CMD-TAB or the Dock to try to switch to MD
already running in a different space, Moneydance's menu bar will appear in
the current space (without any windows), but my screen view doesn't switch
to the space MD is running in -- I have to use F8, CTRL-n, or CTRL-arrow to
manually switch to MD's space, at which point its windows appear.
This is not a consistent behavior, though. Sometimes the spaces switch like
they're supposed to.

-Gordon

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 10:19 PM, William Barnes <wcbarnes@...> wrote:

> I have a long-standing problem with Moneydance on my year-old MacBook
> Pro running MacOS 10.5.4. When I open the laptop from sleep, there is
> no MD window, despite MD being the front-most application. I have been
> selecting "About Moneydance" and then closing the windoid that opens,
> which then gives me the MD window with the last register I was using,
> but I don't understand why the Moneydance window disappears upon sleep
> in the first place. I believe this problem started when I switched
> from 10.4 to 10.5, but am not sure.
>
> Any Mac users having this problem also?
>
> William
>

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[William Barnes]

> MD's windows don't always play nice with the Spaces feature in OS X  
> 10.5

Thanks, Gordon. Bringing up the correct Space did the job. Why didn't  
I think of that? I'm obviously not a regular user of Spaces, but I  
guess I'm going to have to change that.

William
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[Bob Crochelt-2]

Hi,
my experience here is exactly the same as Gordon's.  I can command-tab to MD,
but the windows do not rise.

Bob Crochelt
Elkins, WV

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 11:12:46PM -0500, Gordon Alley wrote:

> I have no idea if this is related to the problem you're having, but I've
> noticed (and I've seen reports from others also) that MD's windows don't
> always play nice with the Spaces feature in OS X 10.5. Often, when I'm in
> one desktop space, and use CMD-TAB or the Dock to try to switch to MD
> already running in a different space, Moneydance's menu bar will appear in
> the current space (without any windows), but my screen view doesn't switch
> to the space MD is running in -- I have to use F8, CTRL-n, or CTRL-arrow to
> manually switch to MD's space, at which point its windows appear.
> This is not a consistent behavior, though. Sometimes the spaces switch like
> they're supposed to.
>
> -Gordon
>
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 10:19 PM, William Barnes <wcbarnes@...> wrote:
>
> > I have a long-standing problem with Moneydance on my year-old MacBook
> > Pro running MacOS 10.5.4. When I open the laptop from sleep, there is
> > no MD window, despite MD being the front-most application. I have been
> > selecting "About Moneydance" and then closing the windoid that opens,
> > which then gives me the MD window with the last register I was using,
> > but I don't understand why the Moneydance window disappears upon sleep
> > in the first place. I believe this problem started when I switched
> > from 10.4 to 10.5, but am not sure.
> >
> > Any Mac users having this problem also?
> >
> > William
> >
>
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[William Barnes]

On 30-Jul-08, at 21:25 , Bob Crochelt wrote:

>  I can command-tab to MD, but the windows do not rise.

So far, Gordon's suggestions of using F8 or CTRL-arrow keys is working  
consistently for me, but not CMD-tab. Time will tell if it remains  
consistent.

William
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[Hans Derycke]

I know I'm late to the party, and it may not address your issue, but I  
sort the transactions in the register so that the most recent ones are  
at the top. Solves the whole navigation issue for me.

On Jul 30, 2008, at 8:17 PM, Keith Bates wrote:

> On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:55:54 -0500
> "Jim Karcz" <jkarcz@...> wrote:
>
>> Keith,
>>
>> On my Debian Lenny system, the page-up, page-down, Home and end keys
>> navigate in check registers.
>>
>> -Jim
>>
>
> Did you just mess with my computer, Jim? Those keys are now working,
> but they weren't ever before. I've tried home and end, page up and  
> down
> plus the same keys with Ctl, Alt and Shift with no result. Now it  
> works.
>
> The power of positive thinking?
>
> Thank you.
>

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[Brian Juergensmeyer-2]

Hi, All,

----- "John W Foster" <johnwfoster@...> wrote:

> This is a thing I also have asked about several times. Sean & crew...
> how hard would it be to have a "feature" added that allows us to
> 'hide'
> reconciled transactions. This was something I could do with MS Money
> that has never appeared in MD.
> Thanks!
> -  
> John Foster

I'll second this motion (again).  I, too, miss this feature desperately from MS Money.  I'd even thought to try to archive off all of my completed transactions, but that seems to do funky things to my balance.

Regardless, I know that there's an issue in Trac for this.  I just guess that it's never been a high priority.

Brian

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[Nora Martinez]

I have found this to be rather hit and miss. Sometimes it opens at the beginning, sometimes at the end, and other times somewhere in between. Since I have three months worth of future transactions as well as several years of past transactions, what I really would like is a way to go directly to "today". There was a way to do that in Quicken, but I can't remember what it was, just that I used it all the time.  :)

Nora

-------------- Original message --------------
> How do you move to the last transaction on a register? Sometimes md
>opens an account at the first entry and if you have years of
>transactions it's slow to scroll down the list.
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