Rearranging the hierarchy

[Adam Funk]

On 2007-07-26, Mike or Penny Novack wrote:

> I later decide that some accounts I had as top level accounts should be 
> grouped. In other words, let's say that I had a bunch of asset accounts 
> at the top level:
> savings account
> checking account
>
> I want instead:
> current assets
>      savings account
>      checking account
>
> I can see how to do this (via editing accounts) if this were not at the 
> top level. In other words, If I had:
> A
>     B
>     C

In fact, you already have that, with A = "Assets",...


> and I wanted instead
> A
>     D
>          B
>          C

...so you create a new account D ("Bank accounts") under A ("Assets"),
then edit accounts B and C to make D their new parent account.

You also want to set placeholder to true when you create D, so that
you can't accidentally post things to it.