Generating a unique transaction number

[Michael Hendry]

On Mon, 2011-05-09 at 09:01 -0400, Mike or Penny Novack wrote:
> foxylady337 wrote:
> 
> >Good to know I'm not unique!
> >
> >Seriously, though, if there's no intrinsic support for a transaction number
> >within GNUCash, how do other users manage to organise and file all the
> >unnumbered vouchers that comprise the vast bulk of day-to-day activity in my
> >domestic accounts?
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> Take another look at the assumption "there's no intrinsic support for a 
> transaction number". What do you MEAN by that?
> 

What I mean is that there isn't a unique serial number created for each
transaction as it is entered in GNUCash - at least, there isn't one
which is accessible to the user.

I've become used to having this feature in TAS Books, which I've been
using for many years - I've moved to Ubuntu from Windows, hence my
change to GC.

I can obviously pull out my last batch of vouchers, and add one to the
transaction number for my next batch, but it would be so much easier if
I could just click the "+" key in (let's say) the memo field and have a
number entered which is one greater than the number in any other memo
field.

> If you meant "there is no identifier I could assign to the voucher or 
> receipt that would uniquely associate it to a transaction" then clearly 
> not so since I can easily give an example of an identifier that would work.
> 
> Define identifier as the concatenation of account name (number if you 
> like; assigning numbers to accounts IS supported), the Julian date, and 
> then order of transactions on that date. Order as alphameric, not 
> numeric (if you want numeric ordering then you'll want the number of 
> transactions on that date to all have the same number of digits).

> 
> Michael D Novack, FLMI
>