COA Sort Order Not Preserved

[David T.]

John,

I can file a bug, but I notice that bug 747333 was recently added, and although it doesn’t reference this particular problem, it does concern account sorting, and I wonder if it’s somehow related.

Let me know how you’d recommend I proceed.

David

> On Aug 24, 2015, at 4:25 AM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
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>> On Aug 24, 2015, at 2:40 AM, David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> Hi, 
>> 
>> I am running GnuCash 2.6.7 on Mac OS X 10.10.5.
>> 
>> I am encountering a small but annoying behavior that I haven’t seen before. I recently upgraded to 2.6.7 and find the the sort order in the Chart of Accounts always defaults to Account Name. I prefer to sort by Account Code, and I find this annoying. I have double-checked this several times, and am reasonably certain that GnuCash is not preserving this from session to session. Is there something I need to do to ensure that this preference is preserved, or is this a bug?
> 
> That looks like a bug. It’s supposed to be saved in the .gcm file in $GNUCASH_DOT_DIR/books (~/Library/Application Support/Gnucash/books for us Mac users, ~/.gnucash/books for everyone else). If it’s there it’s honored, but it seems not to be saved: In fact, File>Save As writes the default value (name) instead of the customized one.
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>