Sort transactions by date within a day

[GT-I9070 H]

Consider and to assume that not all who use GnuCash are accountants, but,
they ALL, sure, are HUMAN.

The colors and buttons of GnuCash GUI is probably not that important from
accountants financial standpoint but still we can choose only by our liking
and pleasure because we are HUMAN and we have feelings.

I'm not an accountant, I do not get transactions in roles and write in
GnuCash when and in the order I want. If I do not write a transaction at
the time I forget and do not close the accounts and the order makes it much
easier to understand cash flow and figure out what is missing or is
wrong. And I have mistakes every week. The Transactions, where, what time,
are like my personal life story!

The first thing I did in the first contacts with GnuCash was to test and
use a Nº field to sort the transactions, then, not know why, it stopped
working for a while, so I started to use this field for other things.

These days, I tested the sorting by a Nº field and sorting returned to
work, also do not know why. But today I have ATM location (Where)
information in this field.

A field that is missing in transactions is the Location field (Where). Also
is probably not that important from accountants financial standpoint, but
it is very useful when we want to remember where we bought something, what
price paid and want to buy again.

Now, the second sort field (Nº) I use for ATM where I withdrew or bank
check number. When I change configuration to use the Nº field of splits, I
lose all other information in this field that had already been written.

Regards
GTI

2015-06-22 19:27 GMT-04:00 Kevin Buckley <kevin.m.buckley at gmail.com>:

> On 21 June 2015 at 09:29, GT-I9070 H <gti9070h at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Is there any way to sort transactions by date within a day ???
> >
> > eg Sort them randomly by user choice or by hour, it would be possible ???
> >
> > GTI
>
> I'm going to assume that you are not making multiple transactions on a
> sub-second basis.
>
> This approach also assumes that you are not using the Number field in the
> register for any other numbering or labelling scheme.
>
> If you have access to the time then entering it as HHMMSS in the Number
> field
> in the account pane within the register would allow you to sort things
> in the way
> you wish to sort things, because that field does get sorted in numerical
> order
> for entries within the same date.
>
> As others have pointed out, the real TXN time, which GnuCash doesn't make
> any
> attempt to store, is probably not that important from their financai
> standpoint,
> however, even though YOU cannot alter the time of the TXN's entry into YOUR
> GnuCash instance (without editing the XML),  YOU are able to sort YOUR data
> in the way that YOU obviously want it to appear, within at least one
> account pane
> in YOUR register.
>
> What you probably won't be able to do is have GnuCash always present two
> or more accounts, between which you have made TXNs, so as to look the
> same as two paper, or online, copies of statements which the operators of
> the accounts will present to you. You may wish to think of this as those
> two
> operators using their own copies of GnuCash and so there being no obvious
> links between the two views.
>
> Kevin
>
> PS
> You don't even need to use the time in an HHMMSS format. You could simply
> number each day's TXNs in the order you want to see the TXNs in.
>