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Classes or new categories Joseph N. 01-05-2008
Posted by Steve Larson on January 7, 2008, 9:57 pm
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Thanks for the clarification, John. I didn't realize that functionality was
available in the earlier version.


> Steve Larson wrote:
>>Further, Q08 has
>> expanded the classes feature, now called "tags", to allow assigning
>> multiple tags to a single transaction. Since you are on Q06, perhaps
>> the newer version could lend more flexibility to handle your issue.
>
> While I don't have Q2006, I do have Q2005 and Q2008, and the treatment of
> "Tags" in Q2008 is little different than the treatment of classes in
> Q2005, with the exception that "Tags" can be displayed, entered and
> reported in a separate field from the category.
>
> I can assign multiple classes to a transaction in Q2005 and get the same
> result as assigning multiple tags in Q2008: effectively what happens is a
> new tag with subtags is implicitly created.
>
> If a transaction has TagA and TagB assigned, it will appear in reports,
> subtotaled by Tag, as a single tag: TagA:TagB. In Q2005, it would have
> been ClassA:ClassB.
>
> --
> John Pollard
> First initial underscore Last name at mchsi dot com
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>



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