Housekeeping v archiving

[David T.]

Michael,

James is not the first to find the presence of hidden accounts in account drop down boxes obtrusive. See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=397135. James was tripped up by GnuCash’s different behavior with regard to accounts marked as Hidden and ones marked as Placeholder. That bug describes the problem, and the workaround. 

David

On Feb 11, 2015, at 5:00 AM, Mike or Penny Novack <stepbystepfarm at mtdata.com> wrote:

> On 2/10/2015 7:17 PM, Jamestk wrote:
>> 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 am unsure of what you are talking about with that "remain visible" and "cumbersome scrolling".
> 
> Is this just a matter of:
> a) Not knowing what controls whether a subtree of accounts is expanded or not?
> b) Not understanding that you can rename accounts, that you can control the collating sequence by choice of name?
> 
> In other words, just how obtrusive would this hidden part of the tree be if all under a parent with a name like "xarchive" (assuming you have no accounts with names beginning y or z) and that not expanded?
> 
> Michael
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