Viewing childs transactions in parent

Nicholas Piper nick@nickpiper.co.uk
Fri, 26 Oct 2001 16:43:58 +0100


Hi All,

I currently manage a bank account with gnucash which has 7 members.
In order to tell who has what in this bank account, I have given the
actual bank account 7 children :

  The Shared Bank Account   
         |
         |--- Person 1
         |--- Person 2
         |--- Person 3
         |--- Person 4
         |--- Person 5
         |--- Person 6
         |--- Person 7


This works reasonably well. What would make life a lot simplier
however would be the ability to open the "Shared Bank Account"
register and see all the transactions in the children, so I can follow
the *total* balance over time and compare it with the bank statement.

Most of the time the childrens transactions are splits which involve
all 7, so showing them up in the parent account would (I think) add
just one line, not 7.

I upgraded from 1.6.1 to 1.6.4 just now in case it has that feature,
but if it's possible I can't locate the switch.

Can I do what I would like ?

Thanks,

 Nick