Does GnuCash possess a Journal Entry numbering facility

Buddha Buck blaisepascal at gmail.com
Thu Oct 9 12:27:07 EDT 2014


On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 12:19 PM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:

> 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.


Well, random 122-bit number; 6 of the 128 bits are fixed. For my purposes,
I tend to find the first few bytes to be sufficient to find a particular
guid in a list.

But this ID is not exposed to the user, and this discussion seems to assume
that a sequential ID is useful.


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