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How do you add tags to a transaction

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Bob B

25 May, 2020 07:15 PM

I'm trying to find documentation on how tags are added to the parent and split transaction types. I'm using makeParentTxn and makeSplitTxn. I found reference to legacy tags but that sounds like it is an old way of doing things. Can anyone point me in the right direction. Thanks

1. Support Staff 1 Posted by Sean Reilly on 25 May, 2020 07:43 PM

   

   Hi Bob,

   I think the method you want is setKeywords(List), which is tricky to find because it's in the superclass of the transaction classes:
   https://infinitekind.com/dev/apidoc/com/infinitekind/moneydance/mod...

   Thanks!
   Sean

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2. 2 Posted by Bob B on 28 May, 2020 01:30 AM

   

   ThanksI've got it now.

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3. 3 Posted by Max Pixel on 11 Jun, 2020 06:14 AM

   

   I had tried adding a keyword by using getKeywords().add(...), but ended up with the tag repeated numerous times. Given that I was creating transactions inside of a loop, I suspect this is because calling getKeywords() on a newly created transaction returns some sort of recycled List instance. Calling setKeywords with a new list works, but the behavior I encountered indicates to me that something under the hood is implemented in an undesirably risky way.

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4. Support Staff 4 Posted by Sean Reilly on 11 Jun, 2020 09:18 AM

   

   Yes, that getKeywords method should be returning an immutable list. Thanks, I'll sort that out!

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   Developer, The Infinite Kind
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5. System closed this discussion on 10 Sep, 2020 09:20 AM.