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How do you Disable Account Description Autofill for General Journals?

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Posted on by Nadim1 52

Hi all,

I'm wondering if it's possible to turn off the Account Description "autofilling" into the "Description" field when making General Journal Entries? 

For example, if I select GL 6201 with the Account Name of "Salaries and Benefits" - this Account Name will "autofill" into the Description field. Generally, we want to have a more descriptive description for our entries than just the Account Name and so it's not really useful. I can't find a way to turn it off (would like the Description field to remain blank by default when a GL account is populated on the row). Also wondering if the description filed can be made mandatory for posting (so you are unable to post an entry with no description). 

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    Nadim1 52 on at
    RE: How do you Disable Account Description Autofill for General Journals?

    Thank you - somehow I didn't even think of that as an option. I will use that to update all - thanks!

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    Inge M. Bruvik Profile Picture
    Inge M. Bruvik 999 Moderator on at
    RE: How do you Disable Account Description Autofill for General Journals?

    Unfortunately there is no global option for this that I know of. But if you use edit in excel for you chart of account it should be quick to toggle this for many accounts in one operation.

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    Bilal Haider Profile Picture
    Bilal Haider 234 on at
    RE: How do you Disable Account Description Autofill for General Journals?

    As per my knowledge there is no option globally.

    For bulk update you can use config package.

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    Nadim1 52 on at
    RE: How do you Disable Account Description Autofill for General Journals?

    Thank you for the quick reply - is there a way to set this option "globally" vs per individual GL Account? It will be a huge hassle to manually toggle this option on all of our GL cards in each entity.

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    Bilal Haider 234 on at
    RE: How do you Disable Account Description Autofill for General Journals?

    Hi,

    Yes there is an option available on General Ledger account card called Omit Default Descr. in Jnl.

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    learn.microsoft.com/.../required-descriptions-in-g-l-entry

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