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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