New Journal Entry View is too limited

With the new update, functionality has been lost. A user is now unable to see complete information on a line without scrolling, making it difficult to enter data and proof before posting. The ability to scroll through the lines is also more difficult with the new "window inset" for viewing entries.


This update has just added time and frustration to manually entered journal entries. See example here: https://www.screencast.com/t/leL64f7h

  • Guest
  • Feb 2 2022
  • Needs review
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  • Johnny Turner commented
    10 Oct, 2024 09:08pm

    And to think the original post was back in 2022 and BB has done nothing to fix! They simply say "needs review" which translated means "deal with it"! Just a horrible update and now the database view is gone and they still do not have the functionality in NXT......well done BB......well done! UGH!

  • Geoffrey Goodfellow commented
    28 Jun, 2024 05:12pm

    Echo the need to be able to insert lines into a Journal Entry. I came specifically to the Idea Bank to add this idea and came across this existing one after a staff member requested this feature. Lines can be added in FE7 but not in FENXT.

  • Angel Kalal commented
    21 Aug, 2023 04:21pm

    I agree with Sandee Pendergrass

  • Guest commented
    27 Jun, 2023 07:17pm

    Please add the ability to insert lines in order to keep a Journal Entry in Date Order. We use one Journal Entry per month for all our cash entries and want them in date order.

  • Devona Shoemaker commented
    23 Feb, 2023 08:40pm

    agree!!

  • Guest commented
    12 Jan, 2023 09:13pm

    AGREED!!!

  • Sandee Pendergrass commented
    21 Apr, 2022 03:46pm

    The updated version feel like the update went backwards in functionality instead of forward. It's just HORRIBLE and no better than the old database view so users should be given an option to use the previous version before this update. Using this new version feels like stepping back from XBox to Atari.

    There are absolutely no positives and only negatives to the update. I can't see all of the rows on my screen without making the screen resolution too small to see at all. Even what I can see is just not visually friendly because the single rows all run together with no visual breaks. I can't see existing or add new descriptions that are required for my entries because we have multiple payrolls in a month that have to be differentiated easily. It's no longer account selection friendly so I have to type in the entire number with dashes and then wait for the account to pop up to manually click and select. I can skip the first dash but if I skip the second dash, it tells me on digit 4 of 11 that the account doesn't exist when previously I could quickly type all digits with no dashes and it would autofill correctly immediately.

    It takes three times as long to add every single entry and that is just NOT practical in the real world.

  • Heide Becker commented
    14 Apr, 2022 02:21pm

    Not only is the visible Journal reference column way too small, it's frustrating that it allows more characters to be typed than it will save--I'm constantly going back to edit. Why not stop the entry when the max characters are hit (as before)?

  • Anna M Midkiff commented
    23 Mar, 2022 03:37pm

    This is a big disappointment. The reference column is WAY too small, and resizing columns is annoying.

  • Monica Garrison commented
    3 Mar, 2022 12:44pm

    Agree - and the columns aren't sized for the text so you can't see all the information in the Journal Reference column, for example.

  • Guest commented
    23 Feb, 2022 03:17pm

    Completely agree. I can't believe I now have to horizontally scroll to see all the data fields. In my credit card feed, it only shows about 1/3 of the fields at a time, requiring a lot of scrolling. Multiplied by hundreds of entries per month, this scrolling is going to cost so much time. It feels like they took the design back a couple decades.

  • Nicole Taluth commented
    17 Feb, 2022 04:23pm

    I couldn't agree more. The new updates have made it extremely inefficient. Not to mention, it looks very old-school and is difficult to find the information I need on the screen at a quick glance. Everything is now taking twice as long to complete.

  • T W commented
    7 Feb, 2022 03:14pm

    I agree. The update was to be more efficient, but it is very inefficient.

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