Reordering transactions

[Derek Atkins]

Expected.  It's treated as an integer.  So you should use HHMM, not HH:MM

-derek

Quoting Luiz Carlos da Costa Junior <lcjunior at ufrj.br>:

> Hi Derek,
>
> Since your post, I've been using a string that identifies the date as: HH:MM
> (hour:minute) in the NUM field but I realized that GnuCash doesn't sort by
> the NUM field correctly in case of alphanumeric data. For example, for the
> same date it sorts Transaction 1 with NUM = 22:10 before Transaction 2 with
> NUM = 22:00 just because Transaction 1 was created before.
>
> Have you already noticed such behavior or is it expected?
>
> Thanks,
> 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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