[GNC] Hidden accounts appear in popups

Bill Wohler wohler at newt.com
Mon Feb 15 01:28:58 EST 2021


I did? Still a great idea :-).

David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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