Renumbering subaccounts without hyphen

[Cat P]

Thank you, David, much appreciated.

I would have thought the feature was more commonly used, but most
GnuCash-user probably deal with company finances, where charts of
accounts are not so flexible, while my chart is personal and getting
reorganised often enough.

Thanks again,

Cat



On 12/11/2013 17:37, David Carlson wrote:
> On 11/12/2013 9:53 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Cat P <barking at gmx.com> writes:
>>
>>> Hi Derek,
>>>
>>> Many thanks for you reply. My question is about renumbering (Edit >
>>> Renumber Subaccounts...), not renaming.
>>>
>>> It would be a very useful option to me if there was a way to get rid of
>>> the separating hyphen (getting, for example, 4010, 4020, 4030 instead of
>>> 40-10, 40-20, 40-30).
>>>
>>> Thanks for any input,
>> Ah, sorry, I mistread "renumber" as "rename".  I've never used this
>> feature so I have no answer for you.  Sorry.  (Honestly, I didn't even
>> know the feature existed -- and it's greyed out for me)
>>
>>> Cat
>> -derek
>>
>>>
>>> On 11/11/2013 17:04, Derek Atkins wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Cat P <barking at gmx.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi there,
>>>>>
>>>>> I was just wondering if there is a way to renumber subaccounts
>>>>> automatically without the hyphen in between (or any other separator).
>>>> I am not sure I understand the question.  What "hyphen"?
>>>>
>>>> When looking at an account's Full Name in the hierarchy it will always
>>>> combine each account in the tree with the account separator character;
>>>> there is no way around that (you can choose the character in your
>>>> preferences).  But an account's local name is whatever you make it, so
>>>> long as it is unique amongst its siblings.
>>>>
>>>>> Many thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>> Cat
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>>>> -derek
>>>>
>>>
> 
> The help info in the manual suggests it will only be available when you
> are in the chart of accounts and have the highlight on an account that
> already has 'children', which is quite restrictive.
> 
> The manual goes on to describe only cases with the hyphen as Cat
> originally described.  I just tried it and that indeed is how it works. 
> It appears to have the flexibility to over-write previous account
> numbering with new values. 
> 
> I think that it always pre-pends the child accounts with the parent
> account code in an attempt to make sorting by account number continue to
> work but that actually fails at the hyphen.  This will probably also
> fail when entering the account code with a hyphen into the account field
> in the register.
> 
> I believe that it could be made to work if the hyphen could be omitted
> altogether and the child accounts were simply given additional digits
> after the parent account code according the rule defined by the wizard.
> 
> Alternatively, the rest of the account code processing would have to be
> revised to accept the hyphen, and if this is done it would make sense to
> allow a user preference for other characters such as period or
> underscore, for example.
> 
> I would be willing to submit a bug report for this.
> 
> David C
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