Split transaction sorting

[David Carlson]

On 10/18/2011 10:05 AM, David Carlson wrote:
> 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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I forgot to reference splits involving multiple currencies.  I
personally don't mix currencies, but many people do.

David Carlson