Reordering transactions

Luiz Carlos da Costa Junior lcjunior at ufrj.br
Tue Oct 13 18:52:10 EDT 2009


I have never browsed in gnucash's wiki, but I can help adding a description
of this scheme.
Could you please point me out where is the best section to place this
description?

2009/10/13 Daniel Trezub <daniel3ub at gmail.com>

> 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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