Housekeeping v archiving

[David]

James,

You *are* aware that you can hide an account from the drop down list by making it a placeholder account, yes?  I do that with closed accounts all the time.

David



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From: Jamestk <davidjamestk at hotmail.co.uk>
Sent: Tue Feb 10 16:17:59 PST 2015
To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: Housekeeping v archiving


Hello Mike and thanks for the reply.

The house construction project was really a one off to demonstrate the need
for archiving.

Whilst you can eliminate old accounts for projects and such like with
reports, they do however remain visible in the account tree. This makes
selecting individual accounts with the drop down menu a bit cumbersome
scrolling to the one you want. Yup, you can use shortcut keys to jump ahead
but it would be nice to have a cleaner overall structure.

I have followed my suggestion above creating two archiving account; one for
expenses and one for income.

By making the older accounts sub accounts of these two archiving accounts,
then deleting all transactions are then kept but stored accordingly.

During this process I have made sure the payee reflects the transaction
itself for future reference or searching.

Not ideal but certainly an improvement, GNU account tree reduced by 15 or so
accounts shrinking in appearance.

David





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