Account selection for Transaction reports

[Fred Bone]

On 30 March 2015 at 18:01, Geert Janssens said:

> On Monday 30 March 2015 16:50:04 Donald Muir wrote:
> > It seems quite impossible to select and/or filter out the account
> > ranges I need for my transaction reports.
> > 
> > In ordinary English usage, "select all" and "select children" do not
> > work, unless
> > 
> > First I open all levels of the account tree, then I want to select
> > accounts for my report. GC lets me select only one contiguous account
> > range, but the list is in alphabetic order of top level accounts rather
> > than the "logical" order specified by my account code structure.
> > 
> > Ok, so I can filter out the accounts I don't want. Or can I? - the
> > filter mechanism suffers from the same defects: it's in alpha order and
> > allows only one contiguous range.
> > 
> > Please may we have the following:
> >    1.   sort the accounts list in account code sequence so I can keep
> > certain accounts at the end of the list 2.   allow selection and
> > filtering on any arbitrary set of accounts
> > 
> > In many applications, various key combinations (Ctrl+Click, etc)
> > toggle list entries on or off: not GnuCash.
> 
> It actually works this way on Fedora 20, gnucash 2.6.5. I can use Ctrl-
> Click to add/remove arbitrary single accounts in both lists. Note that the
> first ctrl-click appears to be absorbed to highlight the whole account
> tree widget. Subsequent ctrl-clicks work as advertised.
> 
> You may also want to upgrade to gnucash 2.6.5 as that's the current 
> stable release (and what I have tested with).

It also works that way on Windows with 2.4.12. There is no problem about 
selecting isolated accounts.