How to show full account path in register title bar?

risterian en9e-60hk at dea.spamcon.org
Tue Sep 25 23:54:19 EDT 2012


David Carlson <carlson.dl at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

>On 9/25/2012 2:01 AM, risterian wrote:
>> I have GnuCash set for "Register opens in a new window".
>>
>> The title bar of an account register window shows only the leaf
>> name.  But that same leaf name might occur in a half-dozen other
>> places in GnuCash, especially for equities.
>>
>> In Preferences, Register Defaults, Other Defaults, the "Only
>> display leaf account names" is unchecked, and I can't see any
>> other Preference to change this.
>>
>> So I end up unsure of which register window is open.
>>
>> For example I have two windows open that say "Apple".  What I
>> want is those same two windows open but one showing
>> "Income:Investing Income:Etrade:Apple" and the other
>> "Investments:Etrade:Apple".
>>
>> This is gnucash 2.4.11, Windows XP SP3.
>>
>>
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>Interesting... It works that way on my computer too.  If I hover the
>curser over the tab, the fully qualified account name appears, but that
>is not exactly as described in help. 
>
>Another trick that I am using is to color Asset account tabs one color
>and Liability account tabs another, but that is not easy to set up either.
>
>Perhaps others can comment whether this should be reported in Bugzilla.
>
>David C

Thank you very much!  That hover trick should help a lot - I hadn't
stumbled on that myself or in docs.




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