Request: Enhancement in Use of Account Codes

[Geert Janssens]

Hi,

It seems to me this is a European thing. You're from France, I'm from Belgium. 
In Belgium it would also be very helpful to sort on Account name or Account 
code at will. Accounting in Belgium uses a similar code scheme.

There was a thread some time ago on the German account setup (something with 
SKR04, I believe) which discussed a problem with long account names. To me 
that topic seems related.

Maybe it would be good to get an overview of typical accounting 
issues/agreements in Europe to see if some more general improvements could be 
made towards European users ?

Discussion is of course only a start. Someone should eventually implement good 
suggestions in code. I'm afraid I'm not up to that part (yet)...

Regards,

Geert

On Tuesday 16 December 2008, Raphaël Maville wrote:
> Request: Enhancement in Use of Account Codes.
>
> I would like to know how to have an enhancement in the use of the
> gnucash account codes, and to use it to sort the accounts.
>
> I know this already exists in the main accounts window, and in the
> reports.
>
> Here is an example, and the screen copies joined to this mail show it
> better:
> I have accounts with the names and such codes
> - Account A : code 1
> - Account B: code 2
> - Account C: code 3
> - SubAccount of C: Account C0 code 30
> - etc...
>
> Some people, to have ALWAYS their accounts well sorted on screen, use to
> record the code before the name:
> - 1_Account A : code 1
> - 2_Account B: code 2
> - 3_Account C: code 3
> - SubAccount of C: 30_Account C0 code 30
> - etc...
>
> We can see the accounts names well sorted only in the edit/new account
> "popup" only in the second writing : in the first, it is sorted by name;
> if the names are long, it is not useful!
>
>
> On my opinion, the second is bad, andn ugly use of gnucash, which have a
> field for these codes.
>
> Of course this would be set and decide by convention between the users
> of the same accounting tree...
>
>
> What I would like, it is to have the Option to use it every where It is
> useful, including by example the account's tree in the "New account"
> window; then the existing hierarchy of accounts will appear "well
> sorted".
>
> Of course, without writing thousands of code lines...
>
>
> Opinion ?