Forcing transaction order

[philip_harris at yahoo.com]

These are not CSV, but rather manually entered transactions. I tried what you suggested below regarding duplicating the offending transactions and deleting the originals; but that did not change the situation  at all. 


> On Apr 29, 2016, at 5:29 AM, Lt. Goose <ltgoose at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 2016-04-29 11:21 GMT+02:00 <gnucash-user-request at gnucash.org>:
> 
>> From: Philip Harris <philip_harris at yahoo.com>
>> To: "gnucash-user at gnucash.org" <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
>> Cc:
>> Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 02:36:02 +0000 (UTC)
>> Subject: Forcing transaction order
>> I am having an issue in which GnuCash is reordering same-dated
>> transactions from their entry order and I cannot get it to restore the
>> proper order. I enter transactions 1, 2, and 3. Upon entering #3, GnuCash
>> moves it above #'s 1 and 2. I have tried entering numbers in the Num field
>> to force the desired order but they are being ignored. I can get the
>> application to resort based off the Num field, but the balances are not
>> recalculated so now they will be jumbled up. I have been very impressed
>> with the application until now. Is there anyway to get it to stop with this
>> insane behavior, to cajole it to retain entry order, or to instruct it to
>> recalculate after a resort? While this behavior does not break my
>> accounting, the resulting order is illogical and causes confusion for the
>> person reviewing the books.
>> 
>> Thanks!
> From time to time I get such behavior (mainly upon CSV-imported
> transactions). What I end up doing is duplicate the entries that do not
> reorder correctly (transactions 1 and 2 in your example) and delete the old
> ones.
> 
> I don't know why it happens, but it works fine for me as a workaround.
> 
> HTH.
> Regards,
> Gus.
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