Reordering transactions

[Luiz Carlos da Costa Junior]

Ok, I see...

But in case of other data than integers what does it do? Ignore this field?
Is it possible to put the transactions with non-integer NUM data at the end
of the list and sort them?

Best regards,
LC

2009/10/21 Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu>

> 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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