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Mar 31, 2007 11:58 pm

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This post is about: Quicken Medical Expense Manager V2 2007
QMEM V2 and now V2.1 do something funny (not so funny). If you enter, in this order:

1- a provider (but no mileage for that provider), 2- add a visit
3- update the provider with the roundtrip mileage

that visit will forever show 0 miles in the tax report, rather than accepting the updated miles.

I can see only one positive use for this strange behavior...when a provider moves from one location to another. Then you can enter mileage 1, update it to mileage 2, and visits at location 1 will be calculated with mileage 1 and visits to location 2 will be calculated with mileage 2.

But this behavior means I must manually update the mileage for each individual visit when I learn of the mileage after entering visits. Not reasonable. Update the mileage for all visits when you update the provider round-trip mileage.

I'd rather call a provider who moves to a different location a different provider (much like if he has office 1 and office 2 at the same time...then you must have 2 providers), but have the mileage get calculated for each visit based upon any changes in provider round-trip mileage.
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[Meg, Quicken]
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Apr 02, 2007 08:39 am 
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Hi there!

Yes, that is correct. The mileage will be entered for all expenses GOING FORWARD that you enter if you modify the provider setup to include the mileage. If you have any expenses for that provider prior to your mileage entry modification, you will have to delete and re-enter or simply add the mileage to those expenses that were entered before you made that change. All expenses entered after the change will reflect the correct mileage.

Meg A. Watt

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  • dbAnalyst (Apr 3, 2007 4:01 pm)
  • GTJill (Apr 9, 2007 8:58 am)



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    [dbAnalyst]

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    Apr 03, 2007 03:01 pm 
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    Replying to: Quicken Meg (Apr 2, 2007 9:39 am)
    Meg's reply indicates (to those with a database background) that the file structure is "Look-Up" rather than being relational ... and that the only time that the look-up takes place is when the record is originally input.

    All of which goes back to the so-called "complexity" of the QMEM database/file-structure ... which isn't very complex at all.

    db

    THINK IT THRU! Have you explained your issue so that someone who knows nothing about you, or YOUR Quicken setup, can understand what your issue is? Are you using standard Quicken terminology, particularly with respect to FILES, ACCOUNTS and CATEGORIES?
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    [GTJill]

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    Apr 09, 2007 07:58 am 
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    Replying to: Quicken Meg (Apr 2, 2007 9:39 am)
    ...and this makes perfect sense to me. I don't understand why you would be looking for different behavior.

    This just goes to show that different users have different needs, I guess.

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    [mackland38]
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    Apr 19, 2007 01:11 pm 
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    How about if the service provider comes to you, as when you are in the hospital, and provides services on multiple days, or a multiple providers are involved in a single visit.

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