Reordering transactions

Daniel Trezub daniel3ub at gmail.com
Tue Oct 13 18:02:19 EDT 2009


This is a good idea. Do you mind adding this to the wiki, so other users can
benefit from your scheme?

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2009/10/13 Luiz Carlos da Costa Junior <lcjunior at ufrj.br>

> Hi Daniel and Derek,
>
> Thanks for your comments.
>
> Once the transactions appear in more than one account and there is only one
> number for the entire transaction (and not a number per split), I bet that
> I
> won't be able to create a "numeration system" that keeps all the
> transactions in the right order in all accounts.
>
> The only way I see is to use the time as a number, so the pair "Date
> Posted/NUM" (actually, "Date Posted/Time") will be unique and will sort
> correctly all transactions over all accounts.
>
> But this is an user choice and now I know how to use the field NUM, that
> use
> to be useless to me until now.
>
> Best regards,
> LC
>
> 2009/10/12 Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu>
>
> > Luiz Carlos da Costa Junior <lcjunior at ufrj.br> writes:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Sometimes I add transactions for the same day but in the end they are
> in
> > the
> > > wrong chronological order.
> > >
> > > As far as I know, gnucash orders the transactions in the same day
> > according
> > > to the creation order.
> > > Is it possible to reorder transactions?
> >
> > Correct, the time entered is used.  But the actual order is:  Date
> > Posted, Num, Date Entered, Description, GUID, ...  So the NUM column
> > will actually take precedence over the Date Entered column.  So,
> > put numbers into the 'num' column?
> >
> > > Thanks,
> > > LC
> >
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> > -derek
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