Using Account Codes

[Derek Atkins]

Yawar Amin <yawar.amin at gmail.com> writes:

> On 1/31/10 11:54 PM, Justin Jaynes said:
>> Yawar,
>>
>> That's not what happens though.  When I tye "e" for ent, it
>> capitalizes the e to "E" and if I keep typing the code "Ent" and push
>> tab, it says "The account does not exist.  Would you like to create
>> it?"
>>
>> It does not capitalize my letters unless it seems to start with the
>> name of the accounts Equity, Expense, Assets, etc.  How can I stop
>> this from happening?
>>   
>
> OK, it looks like GnuCash is mistaking the `ent' account code for an
> actual account name. Maybe it expects all account names to start with
> letters and account codes to start with numbers? In this case a quick
> and dirty workaround would be to put a number, say `1', before all your
> account codes. So `ent' becomes `1ent' and so on. I just tried this out
> and it seems to work fine.

Account Codes are meant to be numeric.  They are designed for old-school
numbered account codes.

There's no reason to use shorthand text codes.  If you want groceries
you can just type:   e x : g

> HTH,
>
> Yawar

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-derek

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