[GNC] Account Sort Order

[Geoff]

Hi David

 > Can anyone tell me if there is some way I can get the Cash
 > account to appear before the commodities, without assigning account
 > codes to them all? Assigning codes is out of the question because I'd
 > have to resequence every commodity account after the purchase of any
 > new commodity, which would get old very quickly.

As a workaround, you can achieve the desired result if you assign the 
*same* account code to all of the broker's commodities (which avoids 
resequencing), and a lesser (or blank) account code to the cash account.

See attached screenshot.

Hope this helps.

Regards

Geoff
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On 26/02/2021 5:40 am, David T. via gnucash-user wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm using GnuCash 4.4 under Windows 10, and I am wondering how GnuCash 
> sorts accounts in the Chart of Accounts window. My chosen sort order is 
> by Account Code; however, I choose not to assign account codes for a 
> large number of accounts (such as individual commodities in a brokerage 
> account). For these accounts, I assumed that GnuCash sorts accounts by 
> their names, based on an ASCII sort--which is generally what I see. The 
> result is something like:
> 
> 1599 - Broker A
> -- 21st Century Fox
> -- Alphabet
> -- IBM
> 
> 1600 - Alphabetically Earlier Account with higher account code
> 
> and so forth. And, indeed, that is how I see most of these accounts.
> 
> However, I decided to change up my structure and add a cash account to 
> one of my brokerage accounts, and  no matter what I name this account, 
> it shows up after every commodity account, like so:
> 
> 1599 - Broker A
> -- 21st Century Fox
> -- Alphabet
> -- IBM
> -- 1 Cash
> 
> I've tried putting "*" "-" " ", and the result is the same; Cash appears 
> after the commodities. Can anyone explain to me how GnuCash is arriving 
> at this sort? Can anyone tell me if there is some way I can get the Cash 
> account to appear before the commodities, without assigning account 
> codes to them all? Assigning codes is out of the question because I'd 
> have to resequence every commodity account after the purchase of any new 
> commodity, which would get old very quickly.
> 
> TIA,
> 
> David
> 
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