[GNC] Hidden accounts appear in popups

[David Carlson]

Well, it has only been 10 years since you(Bill) suggested renaming the
placeholder column to Read-Only.

On Sun, Feb 14, 2021 at 11:11 PM Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com> wrote:

> 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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