Ordering debits (I finally have a complaint!)

[Derek Atkins]

File an RFE.  Implementing this shouldn't be TOO hard....

-derek

Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> writes:

>   David Frascone <dave at frascone.com>,
>   In a message on Mon, 23 Aug 2004 13:43:16 -0500, wrote :
>
> DF> When several credits and debits occur on the same day, Quicken is nice
> DF> enough to order the credits before the debits.  Is there a way to make
> DF> Gnucash do the same?  I run into an issue when I try to eyeball my
> DF> balance, when my register looks like this:
> DF> 
> DF>                                		Amount		Balance
> DF> 01/15/04 whatever                                       100.05
> DF> 01/15/04 Car bill        		100		0.05
> DF> 01/15/04 Electric bill			100		-99.95
> DF> 01/15/04 Gas Bill			100		-199.95
> DF> 01/15/04 Paycheck				500	300.05
> DF> 
> DF> Instead of:
> DF> 
> DF>                                		Amount		Balance
> DF> 01/15/04 whatever                                       100.05
> DF> 01/15/04 Paycheck				500	600.05
> DF> 01/15/04 Car bill        		100		500.05
> DF> 01/15/04 Electric bill			100		400.05
> DF> 01/15/04 Gas Bill			100		300.05
> DF> 
> DF> 
> DF> My issue is, that I schedule my paycheck, so that I can tell how much
> DF> money I have left over at the end of the month, by looking at the
> DF> balance before my paycheck hits.  In the first case, it's negative.  In
> DF> the second, it's 100.05.
>
> Yeah, this seems to be a issue of how to order transactions that occur
> on the same day -- GnuCash seems to be 'mindlessly' doing an ASCII
> ordering by transaction name.  'Paycheck' is somewhat late in the
> ordering (eg later than most bills, like Car, Credit, Food, Electric,
> or Gas -- this is an (unfortunate?) 'feature' of the English
> language...). I too would find it helpful if Credits would get a
> ordering precedence.
>
> DF> 
> DF> Later,
> DF> 
> DF> -Dave
> DF> 
> DF> -- 
> DF> David Frascone
> DF> 
> DF>                      Oxymoron: Real Magic.
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>

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