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Better help documentation on fields needed

Last post 02-03-2009, 11:03 PM by richard22. 1 replies.
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  •  12-26-2008, 10:28 PM 5639

    Better help documentation on fields needed

    I am a new user for the Mac version. I am flummoxed by the cryptic field names and labels. What is the difference between a field NAME and a field LABEL? How do you use each type of receipt field like 'category' or 'project'? How do you create a new name for any of these? By reading the PDF for the Windows versions, I have guessed that the field named "CATEGORY" is supposed to be used for the vendor type. So Wal-mart would be categorized as a 'general retailer' for instance, Sunoco would be 'gas'. However this is not the same as expense type such as 'Christmas gifts' or "pet care" or "Beach vacation 2008". How do I create a field for this? Are there fields created already that would be searchable and useful for this, say like, "Project" [not appropriate home-finance terminology but, well, whatever...]? Additionally, the way to "Create or Modify Fields" in the Edit dropdown is utterly mysterious. How does this functionality relate to displaying a new field on the reciept screen? I haven't figured out yet how to get the "Project" field to display on the reciept screen for instance.

    thanks! love the OCR functionality but the database design needs to be a bit more user-friendly and more intuitive.

  •  02-03-2009, 11:03 PM 5904 in reply to 5639

    Re: Better help documentation on fields needed

    Agreed.

    I want to have a field that relates to the line items in my budget but so far they are confusing categories.  I suppose one could use a field for whateve you want but being able to define a field as one can in most databases would be useful. I too am using the MAC version.

     

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