What happened to the balance column in sub-account journal register?

[Derek Atkins]

<arustyt at charter.net> writes:

> Derek,
>
> Sorry about the confusing description.  You identified precisely what I am referring to - when I select File -> "Open Subaccounts" for a parent account, I expected to see the balance column.  Can you tell me why the balance column was removed in this case?  The ability to partition a single physical account into multiple sub-accounts was one of the primary reasons that I was looking at Gnucash as a Quicken replacement and the balance column was a key feature to make this feasible.

I don't know why...

> Along the same line, is it still possible to reconcile a parent account and include subaccounts?

yes.

> Thanks for your help,
> Rusty

-derek

>> 
>> I don't understand..  The balance column is always there when you open
>> a register..  Unless you open it in some "special" way.  What exactly
>> do you mean by "SubAccount Register"?  Do you mean File -> Open
>> Subaccounts?  In that case, yes, the balance column was specifically
>> left off.
>>
>> -derek
>> 
>> <arustyt at charter.net> writes:
>> 
>> > Has the balance column in the sub-account journal register been removed intentionally?  I am new to gnucash, and first installed gnucash 1.6.5 under Mandrake 8.2.  In this version the balance column was present.  However, when I installed Redhat 9 and gnucash 1.8.1, the balance column in the sub-account journal register was no longer present.  I also tried gnucash 1.8.8 under Redhat 9 and 1.8.7 under Fedora with the same result; no balance column.
>> >
>> > Thinking that perhaps I had imagined the column in the first place, I looked at the screen shots on the gnucash website, and sure enough, there is a balance column in the journal register shot.
>> >
>> > I have attempted to locate a configuration setting that might control this behavior with no luck.
>> >
>> > Am I missing something here?  Your help will be appreciated.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Rusty
>> >
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       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
       URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
       warlord at MIT.EDU                        PGP key available