[GNC] Order of transactions

[Stephen M. Butler]

On 3/7/19 8:57 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> writes:
>
>> Lisa,
>>
>> I will add to David’s advice that you can use the NUM field other than
>> a simple 1,2,3,4...
>>
>> You might, for example, need or want to keep an actual transaction
>> number with the transaction.
>>
>> For that case, you can put the real transaction number in the Action
>> or Memo field of the split.
> There really is no need to do this.  The Number field is a string-entry,
> it will let you input anything you want.  The SORTING mechanism from the
> Num field is a NUMERIC sort; it effectively performs the C-function call
> atoi() on the contents.  This means you could do something like:
>
> 1.16274
> 2.0023
> 3.172323
>
> And it will sort based on the 1, 2, 3.
>
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> -derek

In one of my books, I did 'yyyy-nnnn' for the field and was able to sort
on the entire string.  I've sold that business and don't do that for my
personal book.

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