Favorite accounts window

[Colin Law]

On 12 March 2013 09:27, Jesus M Diaz <jesusm.diazperez at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> Yes, I know the way to select accounts with keyboard, but if you have, i.e.,
> 3 levels of accounts, you should type at least 2 letters followed by ':',
> but if you have 6 levels ...  meant that when I said a complex hierarchical
> structure would make harder the use of keyboard to select the account. If,
> besides, the name of several accounts are similar, maybe you'll have to type
> muche more than the first letter for each account.

Six levels!  I have never felt the need for anything like that.  You
can mark an account as hidden by editting the acccount (right click on
the Accounts page) and setting Hidden, and if you also select
Placeholder then you will not be able to assign transactions to it.
To re-show it then in the menus select View > Filter By > Other and
check Show hidden accounts.  This is really intended for hiding
accounts that are no longer used rather than temporarily hiding ones
that are just not used much.

>
> In the same way, if I have several assets (stocks or funds) under the same
> account, most of them are for 'long way', and I play day to day just with
> few of them, but I have to select the one I want among the whole list.

I don't know wother there is a similar feature for stocks and funds.

Colin

>
> Yes, I know it is nor a big deal, but I think it would be easier and
> firendly if I could marke few accounts as 'preferred' or 'favorite' and I
> could group all favorite ones in a single window.
>
> Thanks again
>
> (this time I've not forgotten to reply-all ;-) )
>
>
> 2013/3/12 Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com>
>>
>> Please use Reply All when replying to this list, otherwise the message
>> just goes to the last poster.
>>
>> On 11 March 2013 22:06, Jesus M Diaz <jesusm.diazperez at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Yes, but I have a lot of 'expenses' as well as several 'incomes', but
>> > most
>> > them I rarely user. I also can make a deeper hierarchical schema, but it
>> > would make harder to use the keyboard method to select the transfer
>> > field
>>
>> You have not explained exactly what you are doing when you would like
>> to hide the accounts.
>>
>> A heirarchical system actually makes it easier to enter the account
>> from the keyboard.  Suppose you have an account Expenses:Home:Repairs.
>>  To enter this in the register you can just type the first couple of
>> characters of Expenses then hit : then the first characters of Home
>> and hit : again and finally the first characters of Repairs, then hit
>> tab.  At each level it will show you the available options, so when
>> you have got as far as Home it will show you the subcategories of
>> home, in case you have forgotten exactly what they are.
>>
>> > ...
>> >
>> > Something similar happens with 'investments'. I can have several
>> > differents
>> > assets, but I usually "play" just with very few of them.
>>
>> Again you have not explained exactly what you are doing when you find
>> the number of investments a hindrance.
>>
>> Colin
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