Account Codes

[Bastiaan Veelo]

Ariel wrote:
>
> On Thu, 10 May 2007, Bastiaan Veelo wrote:
>
>> Ariel wrote:
>>> On Sun, 15 Apr 2007, David Hampton wrote:
>
>>>> Accounting codes are a method of organizing your accounts.
>>>>
>>> [...]
>
>>>> Typical use in gnucash is to force non-alphabetical ordering of 
>>>> sub-accounts within any given account, since the account code is 
>>>> the primary sort field.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Are you sure? I just tried it and the order didn't change. I tried 
>>> making Liabilities go directly after Assets, and that didn't work, 
>>> and I tried to change the order of subaccounts and that didn't work 
>>> either.
>
>> Did you click on the column header until it displays a triangle up or 
>> down?
>
> I just tried it and it didn't change anything. It uses the old order 
> with no regard to what's in Account code.
>
> Does it work for you? (This is 2.0.5)
>
>     -Ariel
It works for me, I built from Subversion r15709. It orders siblings in 
the account tree, i.e., it leaves the hierarchy intact.

Bastiaan.