[GNC] Hidden accounts appear in popups

[D.]

I'll mention that you can add both the hidden and the placeholder columns onto your Chart of Accounts window. They appear as check boxes, and you can change their values directly by clicking them in the window. Thus, you can quickly set both these flags from that screen. Note that if your CoA is using the defaults, once you click the hidden check box, your account will disappear. You can address this by setting the filter to show hidden accounts. Perhaps this will be less painful...

Cheers, 
David T. 


-------- Original Message --------
From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
Sent: Mon Feb 15 00:10:03 EST 2021
To: "D." <sunfish62 at yahoo.com>
Cc: GnuCash-User <gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org>
Subject: Re: [GNC] Hidden accounts appear in popups

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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