Feature suggestion: display account numbers in register and account selection popup

[Yawar Amin]

Hi Florian,

On 2011-08-24, at 08:32, Florian Haas wrote:

> […]
> Now, while GnuCash does allow for accounts to be assigned a number,
> those numbers are not available to actually be selected in the
> register when making an entry. That complicates matters for users
> using a numbered accounting scheme -- specifically because, as the
> account number identifies the account unequivocally, the account
> hierarchy scheme does not enforce uniqueness among leaf account
> names. In GnuCash, this problem can be worked around by referring to
> accounts by their full name (as opposed to just the leaf account
> names) -- but that's comparatively tedious, compared to identifying an
> account by its number.

Just want to make sure you know that you can type in an account code in the account entry field, instead of a full account name. When you enter the account code, say 4224, and Tab to the next field, GnuCash automatically substitutes in the full account name. So even though it doesn’t show you a list of the available account codes, you can still type them in.

Regards,

Yawar

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