Split transaction sorting
David Carlson
carlson.dl at sbcglobal.net
Tue Oct 18 11:05:20 EDT 2011
On 10/18/2011 9:08 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Hi,
>
> a <rig9919hd at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Is there any way to sort a split transaction so it is more readable?
>> All my paycheck splits get unreadable and confusing because of the way
>> gnucash sorts them by default.
>>
>> I want my split transactions to look like this:
>>
>> Taxable Salary 118
>> Checking Acct 40
>> Disability Ins 60
>> Federal Tax 10
>> State Tax 5
>> Medicare 1
>> Social Sec 2
>> Pretax Salary 40
>> Health Ins 10
>> Dental Ins 10
>> Vision Ins 10
>> 401K 10
>> Employer Paid 20
>> Health Savings 15
>> 401K Contr. 5
>>
>> Instead it always pushes all the withdrawals (taxable salary, pretax
>> salary, and employer paid benefits) to the very bottom. I've tried
>> giving each split a number in the action box. Doing that and sorting
>> by number or action only sorted the top level transactions in the
>> ledger, the splits weren't sorted at all.
>
> Sorry, there's no way to fix that. It will order each of the Debits and
> each of the Credits in the split on the order in which it was entered,
> but you cannot get it to mix debits and credits.
>
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> -derek
>
Dumb question of the day: Why is there no way to fix that?
I would also like to see entry order sorts in splits. That should be
possible even if another field needed to be added to the split record to
differentiate from actions used in some situations (like investments).
David Carlson
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