Order of transactions for same day.

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

jesse <tamlin at bur.st> writes:

> Hi, does anyone know if there is a way to keep transactions in the same
> order as they were entered, when entered with the same date?

Use the 'num' field in the transaction.

> ie.
> I use GNUcash for my business accounts. But I do not yet use the
> business features such as invoice, customer payment, etc. I do my
> invoices on openoffice with a mysql connection, then enter them on GNUcash.
>
> Problem is when I have done a job and been paid the same day for it I
> enter an accounts receivable transaction. - All goes well. Then I enter
> a payment transaction (credit acc. receivable , debit Petty Cash) and
> this payment transaction appears in the register before the accounts
> receivable one. The result is when looking along the balance I get
> negative numbers. see below
>
>  8/10/07   Job 1 payment            50.00  -50.00
>  8/10/07   Job 1            50.00            0.00
> 15/10/07   Job 2            80.00           80.00
> 28/10/07   Job 3 payment            75.00   -5.00
> 28/10/07   Job 3            75.00           80.00
>
> Is this a bug or is there a way to fix it?

This is not a bug; this is how it is supposed to sort.  It sorts
credits before debits and then sorts by date-entered.  However
it's quite possible that the invoice code doesn't set a "proper"
date-entered and just uses the date-posted value there.

> Thanks in advance for any help.
> Jesse

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-derek
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