moving accounts non alphabetically in list

[David T.]

Or, you could use the provided "Account code" field...

http://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.4/C/gnucash-help/chart-create.html

and

http://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.4/C/gnucash-help/acct-create.html


Sorting this in the chart of accounts is accomplished by first displaying the Account code and then sorting on it.

Note that this will NOT help with the drop down account list in the register; that beast ONLY uses the account name. Presumably, if you wanted your drop down list to sort in a non-alphabetic order, you would have to embed the code in the Account name (e.g., "001 Auto", "002 Furniture", etc.).

David



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 From: GCMAB <nvgybsj8h7 at snkmail.com>
To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org 
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 3:40 PM
Subject: Re: moving accounts non alphabetically in list
 
I believe that Ian's suggestion is the only way to do it, which means you
would either need a free field or a field you are already using which would
already give you the appropriate order.

So in your example if you gave AUTO and account code of 001, Furniture 002
and Current Assets 003 and then sort by account code you would get the
appropriate order. "Account Code" is not displayed as a column by default
but it is one of the columns available.

If you have already used all the fields which can be displayed as columns,
and none of them would result in the order you want, then I think the only
way would be to insert a code at the beginning of the "Notes" field which
has plenty of capacity, display "Notes" as a column and sort on that.

This assumes that "CURRENT ASSETS" is an account you have named yourself
rather than the default "Current Assets" which is the total of a group of
accounts. Whichever column you sort by, the accounts stay within their
groups.



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