Using acct codes for entering accts in a register

[David Carlson]

Ken,

Actually there is a field in the Account record for Account Number.  The
reason David T suggested putting the number directly as a prefix in the
account name is because that is a work-around for the fact that there is a
major bug in GnuCash that causes sorting by Account Number to be somewhat
weird for some account structures.  For me, the sorting by Account Number
seems good enough, so I use it regularly.

There is another drawback to using the Account Number field for some users
in that the drop-down list of accounts that appears during transaction
entry cannot be configured to show account numbers so you have to have your
account number hierarchy memorized or use a cheat sheet when entering by
account number.  Curiously, you can enter the account number in the account
name field and it works much more quickly than the
character,character,colon... method in my opinion.

David C

On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 6:10 AM, David T. via gnucash-user <
gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:

> I don’t believe there are settings specific to your requests.
>
> With regard to the first, however, I have heard from others that you can
> work around this by including the account code as part of the account name,
> e.g., “1000. Assets.” Then you can use quickfill to rapidly drill down
> through the hierarchy.
>
> As for the second, you might use a report to get the list formatted the
> way you want. I don’t think the Chart of Accounts allows the changes you’re
> describing.
>
> David
>
> > On Feb 18, 2017, at 2:33 PM, Ken Heard <kenslists at teksavvy.com> wrote:
> >
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> > In entering accounts in a register I would like to be able to use
> > account codes instead of account names for that purpose.  Where in
> > GnuCash do I make that change?
> >
> > I also want to show account lists either in a tree, or in line without
> > any indents for the account hierarchy.  Where in GnuCash is that option?
> >
> > Regards, Ken Heard
>
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