[GNC] How to reorganize the account tree

Alan A Holmes gnucash at alanaholmes.me.uk
Sun Jun 12 11:52:47 EDT 2022


I wasn't complaining, it was just a comment.

But see the attachment, where "G" and "P" both come before "C". And there
are no leading spaces or non-printable characters.


Alan A Holmes

-----Original Message-----
From: gnucash-user
<gnucash-user-bounces+gnucash=alanaholmes.me.uk at gnucash.org> On Behalf Of
Michael or Penny Novack
Sent: 12 June 2022 14:52
To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: [GNC] How to reorganize the account tree



> What I do notice sorting this way is that within the top level 
> accounts (Assets, Expenses, Income, etc.) that the 2nd and subsequent 
> level Accounts under Assets AREN'T sorted alphabetically, while those 
> under Expenses and Income ARE. I have insufficient sub-accounts under 
> Equity and Liabilities to be able to say.

WHAT are you saying, exactly?

The CoA is a TREE structure. The accounts at the same level of the tree
should be sorted in alpha-meric order. The sibling accounts (children of the
same parent account) should also be sorted that way AMONG THEMSELVES (but
not sorted that way with respect to children of different parents)

You aren't seeing the ultimate top level parent (aka "root") but "top level"
accounts like "asset", "liability", "equity", "income", "expense",
"Imbalance" are its children and so appear in sorted order. 
In other words, they are siblings at the highest level.

Michael D Novack


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