Sort transactions by date within a day

[Michael Hendry]

> On 23 Jun 2015, at 20:37, GT-I9070 H <gti9070h at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 2015-06-23 3:38 GMT-04:00 Michael Hendry <hendry.michael at gmail.com <mailto:hendry.michael at gmail.com>>:
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> I’ve been following this thread with some puzzlement, but now I think I know what you want!
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> First I would like to make it clear that in the first post  I asked: IF IT WAS POSSIBLE and not I WANT. 

I wasn’t suggesting that you were making a demand of the Gnucash community, just saying that I thought I understood what you wished to achieve.

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> 1. You want to have a dedicated field within a transaction which holds the date and time when you entered the transaction.

> No. It would add the time in the Date field that already exists to be used for ordering purposes.

I can see that this would help you if you always enter transactions on the date they take place, and that you always entered them in chronological order, but what happens if you remember today something you bought yesterday, and enter this transaction? Will it have yesterday’s date but today’s time?

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> 2. You want to be able to read this field within Gnucash (as opposed to having it recorded “behind-the-scenes”).

> No. With the field above we do not need be able to read this field.

What happens if you find you’ve made a mistake, and entered a group of transactions in the wrong order? If you can’t see the time-stamp, how can you edit it?

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> 3. You want to be able to sort transactions using this field.

> Yes.  With the field above (Nº 1).

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> 4. You want to have a dedicated field which holds the location at which the transaction took place.

> Yes.

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> 5. You want to be able to see this on the screen too, and presumably sort using it?

> Maybe.
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> It’s not clear how precise you want to be about location - is it general (e.g. ATM, Bank, Shop, My Desk)? Or is it specific (ATM outside Tesco Store in Dundee)?

> E.g. The address of the store or a GPS coordinates for link to GoogleMaps!

This is taking what is intended to be a bookkeeping program in a new direction!

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> As none of these is currently available in Gnucash, you have two alternatives:
> Unfortunately. 
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> 1. Extend Gnucash to provide these features (a: write the code yourself b: pay someone else to do it c: persuade the (volunteer) developers that these are important modifications, needed by many users).
> 2. Devise a way of using existing fields within Gnucash to achieve what you want.

> I know this and have thought of all these alternatives. Maybe you could help persuade a dev to help us, or you do not like these improvements ??? 

I have no use for them, myself, and I have a feeling that there won’t be huge support among Gnucash users.

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> Apparently you’ve tried 2. by using work-arounds, and haven’t succeeded.

> Yes. 
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> It’s always helpful to strip a request for help down to its essentials - you may even find that stating your question clearly allows you to see the answer yourself.
> I did not understand well this English! 

It took me a long time to understand what you were asking for in your original post.

If you want to get help from other people, it’s a good idea to make the question as simple as possible.

I have often found that breaking down a problem into its component parts so that it is simple to explain to someone else allows me to solve the problem myself.

> 
> Michael
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> 
> Regards
> GTI

I hope this helps,

Michael