Does GnuCash possess a Journal Entry numbering facility

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Thu Oct 9 12:19:17 EDT 2014


Michael Hendry <hendry.michael at gmail.com> writes:

> It’s essential, though, for _every_ transaction to have a unique (and
> human-friendly!) number for this method to work.

I'll just point out that currently the former is true -- each
transaction *does* have a unique number.  The issue is "human friendly".
Currently it's literally a random 128-bit number (a GUID).  So there is
no order.  One *could* use just a portion of it, like a 32-bit section,
as your number.

-derek

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