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General Ledger Journal - Description

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Posted on by Ahmad_Safadi 373

When entering a general ledger journal, There is a field for the account type. Suppose I pick "GL Account", then choose a specific account number. What happens is that by default the "Description" field is filled out with the GL Account Description.

What we do is we remove the description, and fill out the General Ledger journal reference . In order to have a proper description about the type of the journal and some details. Is this right ?

If the above is the correct approach, is there a way to add the "Account Name" to this screen ... Why don't we have a description field for the reference and another field for the Account name ? I tried to add it from the "Customize" button, but didn't find a field for the account name

Of course, this applies to all other journals (Purchase Journals, Sales Journal, Payment and cash receipt .. ) which you pick the Account (GL, Customer, Vendor or Bank) the description is filled out with the name ...

Is there any solution to keep both .. ? The account name and a description field ?

Thanks in Advance

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  • Ratankp Profile Picture
    Ratankp 2 on at
    RE: General Ledger Journal - Description

    am unable to store the comments in ledger entries, can anyone share the code in order to store the comments in ledger entries

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    Yogesh Kulkarni_ Profile Picture
    Yogesh Kulkarni_ 1,762 on at
    RE: General Ledger Journal - Description

    You can make use of Comment field as well.

    But I dont think those comments are getting saved in Ledger Entries.

    If you want so, you need to specifically code to save those.

    -Yogesh Kulkarni
    Please verify, if you find answer helpful.

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    Amol Salvi Profile Picture
    Amol Salvi 18,694 on at
    RE: General Ledger Journal - Description

    It default by design that when you select the respective G/L Account /Vendor/Customer then it will display description associated with . If you want to change the description then you can change the same .

    You can add Additional field also to display the default description of that account for user reference. Anyhow it always display the default description in bottom area of Page/form.

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    After Posting entries you can visible the field on Page i.e G/L Account Name so you will get both the description 

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    Rajasekhar@MS Profile Picture
    Rajasekhar@MS 5,567 on at
    RE: General Ledger Journal - Description

    Hi

    By default Description filled with the Name of the G/l Account (if type is G/l) only, if you want to have another field for reference , you have to add a new field in Gen. Journal Line table and to the Journal screens.

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