Auto-Complete Search Method

[Keith Bellairs]

In my chart of accounts, the leaf nodes are not necessarily unique names. I
need the parent accounts to uniquely ID an account.

That said, I like the way mint.com (shudder) searches. It does a substring
search on all the "accounts" and presents a gradually shrinking set of
matches. That would work nicely for me.

Keith
Guelph ON

On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 10:41 PM, GreenLED <nicolaefc at gmail.com> wrote:

> A screenshot for reference as you read:
> http://www.handysite.org/view/auto-complete.jpg
>
> I haven't used GnuCash for a long period of time, but I've noticed a
> particular search behavior that I would like to alter. When you search for
> an account to apply to a transaction (i.e. Typing "Cash" in the "Transfer"
> column of an account), it only searches by using the "exact" method of
> searching. You must barrel through your hierarchy BEFORE you can get to the
> specific account you are looking for. For example, if you are searching for
> the "Cash" account, in my books this would fall under the "top-level"
> account (placeholder) called "Assets". Keep in mind, this is of course
> particular to my situation, but note that many other companies would have
> some sort of hierarchy setup just like this (MANY times MUCH more complex).
> What would be nice is if you could set the "level" at which the
> auto-complete searches. So, in this example, if we set search depth level
> to
> "2" that means if we simply type in "Cash" (NOT "Assets:Cash"), we would
> see
> "Assets:Cash" show up in the listing. Notice what's happening. We are
> SKIPPING the first hierarchical account called "Assets" so that we can
> arrive at the account we need at a much faster pace. Any account PAST this
> point is subject to this auto-complete search. As an added note, it might
> be
> a good idea to REMOVE or have the option to remove accounts in the searched
> accounts that do NOT match our auto-complete search. As I think about this
> as well, we might have a switch to completely "skip" or "ignore"
> place-holder accounts. i think this might even be a much better solution.
>
> In short, when you search using auto-complete, completely IGNORE
> place-holder accounts. In this way, you can reach your desired account MUCH
> faster, and much more effectively. I hope I have made myself clear. If not,
> please do reply with your comments or questions. I would be willing to pay
> someone to implement this feature, it so imperative in accounting to be
> able
> to complete small tasks quickly so you can focus on the bigger tasks
> without
> the extra "fluff" or work involved in something as small as searching for
> an
> account in your ledger.
>
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