Resorting top-level accounts?

[John Ralls]

On Feb 12, 2011, at 7:21 AM, Kevin Reid wrote:

> In my accounts page, there are the usual top-level accounts Assets, Equity, Expenses, Income, Liabilities — in that order. Since the subaccounts of Income and Expenses are so long compared to Assets and Liabilities, and I often want to look at both Asssets and Liabilities at the same time, I'd like to change this ordering. Obviously I could rename the accounts, but that would make it less straightforward to type account names in transactions.
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> I am thinking to use one of the 'Account Code', 'Description', or 'Notes' field for a sort key, and sort the accounts page with that. I've tested this with Account Code, and it works. I wouldn't want to use Description or Notes because then subaccounts with actual meaningful text in those fields would end up not being alphabetical by name.
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> Is there any reason I shouldn't do this, or a better way to customize the sorting?
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That's a perfectly fine use of account codes. Individual users seldom have any other use for them.

Regards,
John Ralls