Closing Accounts

[fellowtraveler at comcast.net]

Thanks I’ll give it a try. As to why I organized it that way, I can’t say for sure and I was thinking the same thing to myself when writing the email and seeing the results of it. I may try and merge them together at some point. At which time I’ll probably be back asking how to do that. :)

== Joe

> On Feb 20, 2016, at 3:29 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 20 February 2016 at 20:13,  <fellowtraveler at comcast.net> wrote:
>> I have the Income and Expenses tabs divided at the first level by year. Example:
>> 
>> Income -> 2014
>>             -> 2015
>>             -> 2016
>> 
>> Expense -> 2014
>>               -> 2015
>>               -> 2016
>> 
>> However, this creates some issues when entering data in that there are a lot of fields to choose from that I’d prefer not to see any more. For example, on an invoice when selecting an Expense category, I don’t need to see 2014 or 2015 any more. Is there a way to mark those so that they don’t show up in the drop down boxes and then also lock them so that I can’t inadvertently add more data to them?
> 
> In the accounts tab right click the account and select Edit Account.
> Then select Hidden (which hides it, obviously) and Placeholder which
> stops you entering new data (I think).
> 
> Though I have to say the way you have organised the data seems odd to
> me.  I don't see the point in making life complicated like that.  When
> you want to see data for a particular year you can use the various
> reports to do that.
> 
> Colin