[GNC] Hidden accounts appear in popups

Bill Wohler wohler at newt.com
Mon Feb 15 00:10:03 EST 2021


Thanks for the confirmation, David. This does seems like a bug to be
fixed someday...

D. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Yep. That's how it is. To hide accounts in the popup, you also have to set it as a placeholder. Cf. https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=397135
> 
> David
> 
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
> Sent: Sun Feb 14 19:03:09 EST 2021
> To: gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org
> Subject: [GNC] Hidden accounts appear in popups
> 
> The documentation says that, "The check box Hidden marks this account
> (and any sub-accounts) to be hidden in the account tree and not appear
> in the pop-up account list in the register."
> 
> However, hidden accounts are still appearing in the account pop-up for
> me (version 4.4).
> 
> Is this a known bug? I read about marking all of the hidden accounts
> with placeholder, but this is a pain. It also appears you still have to
> mark all subaccounts as hidden and placeholder as well, which is a pain.
> 
> One click on the Hidden box in the parent account should be all it takes
> to make the account go away until summoned by the Filter By > Other >
> Show hidden accounts option.
> 
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