Account hierarchical numbering

[Kenneth Marshall]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 08:46:11AM -0500, Mike or Penny Novack wrote:
>
>>> . Is there a way to use
>>> hierarchical numbering except from introducing zeros everywhere, like
>>> "1.2.02"? This would be a useful feature probably easy to implement.
>>>
> I should probably have explained? (I wasn't ignoring that you were asking 
> for "without lead zeros")
>
> No, not easy to implement. Impossible to implement since the "account 
> number" field can't be defined as numeric. The name is deceptive, implying 
> that the "account numbers" have to BE numbers and this is not true. You are 
> seeing only YOUR chosen use of this field (a series of numbers using "." as 
> the separator) and imagining that this is the ONLY way people might be 
> using the field.
>
> So it has to be "alphameric"
>
> Michael D Novack, FLMI

It should be possible by changing the sort operator. I do not know
how amenable gnucash is to that. It would be nice if there we a couple
of selections and the ability to write a custom one in the scripting
language, as well.

Cheers,
Ken