What purpose is served by the Account Code field?

[Ken Heard]

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On 2017-02-19 00:42, David T. wrote:
> 
>> On Feb 18, 2017, at 5:57 PM, Ken Heard <kenslists at teksavvy.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> Since my original post I discovered that the left most column in
>> the accounts window -- whatever it may be -- is always a tree.
>> So if for example the placeholder column is placed there it will
>> be a tree, but the account name column will not be.
> 
> Interesting. I see what you describe. I wonder whether it was
> intended to have the first column be the locus of the tree
> structure; it is a little disconcerting to expand the account type,
> for example. Also, I note that if one puts the Account Color in
> this position, the tree display gets messed up, with the widgets
> being placed behind the data for the next column because the color
> column doesn’t resize. I’m not sure what alternative one would use,
> however.

For me the obvious solution would be not to use the colour option, a
needless complication causing more trouble than it is worth.

> Finally, it can be confusing if you have some accounts without
> codes, as it can be difficult to determine which portions of the
> tree are expanded, which aren’t, and where one part of the tree
> ends.

I have given all my accounts a both a code and a name in both the
Account Code and Account Name fields in the format "code: name".  So
the entries in both those fields are identical, although as I have
already said I see no purpose in the Account Code field.

(In order to use the colon as above I had to change in preferences the
accounts separator from colon to tilde.)

Regards, Ken


> David
> 

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