Account numbers in a Report

[Maf. King]

On Sun 31 January 16 17:20:20 John R. Sowden wrote:
> How do I display the account number in a report? When a Trial Balance is
> open and I click on edit->report options, I don't get an option to
> select column titles and data.
> 
> Since I tried to enter a sample transaction for paying the rent, when I
> entered rent under transfer, I got a message telling the the account
> does not exist.  First I thought that gc was expecting me to enter Rent
> vs. rent, but, no.  When I went to the Accounts list, where I have
> entered my chart of accounts, rent was there. So when I entered 6130, in
> the transaction transfer column, up popped rent.  By the way, when I had
> entered rent, which could not be found, I clicked on the button in the
> transfer column, where I expected to be shown those accounts with the
> word rent in them. Not a chance.  I got my complete chart of accounts,
> which I had to scroll through to find rent.
> 
> This is why the Account Numbers (Account Code in GC) is so important.
> 
> If it is important, I am running xubuntu 15.04 LTS and GC 2.6.1 (build
> date 2/19/14), the most recent version that Unbuntu has in the repository.
> 
> John
> 

Hi John,

I don't know about getting the account code in a report, as I don't use 
account codes.

To directly address your issue of the "Rent" account and not being able to 
type it in the transfer column,  it sounds to me that you are not typing the 
full account name -  which would be something like "Expenses:Rent", rather 
than just "Rent"?

If, in the transfer box, you type the following sequence of keys:  e x : r e  
then GC  is clever enough to limit your typing and help find the account for 
you.

YMMV, of course, eg you might not have the account delimiter as a colon...

Maf.