[GNC] Account tree

[Adrien Monteleone]

That could be a way to wrangle a P&L without filtering.

And one should be able to later delete those 'tag accounts' without 
losing the underlying transactions. GnuCash will dutifully ask what to 
do with them, but since they exist in at least two other registers, I'd 
think they would not be deleted, but of course, that should be tested first.

Regards,
Adrien

On 7/27/26 8:39 PM, Tom Route36 wrote:
> I was looking back thru this email chain; and I noticed that earlier you 
> were saying that what you were really hoping for was that GnuCash had 
> the ability to do tagging.  Well, it kinda does -- although not 
> officially, and not in a very straightforward manner. I personally don't 
> have a need to do this on a regular basis; but if you're looking for a 
> way to tag transactions with some sort of free-form tag names, this 
> might work for you.
> 
> Create a new asset account, and name it Tags.  When you want to tag a 
> transaction, say a meeting room that was paid for with a credit card, 
> add a split entry to that transaction.  The split you add will be a 
> zero-amount; but what it does is it gives you a dedicated Memo field. In 
> that Memo field for the Tags account, you can now type in your tag -- 
> e.g., #July-Meeting.  If you add a similar split entry for every 
> transaction related to the July Meeting, you can then run a Transaction 
> Report that only includes the Tags account, and that you can filter for 
> only those transactions that include the tag #July-Meeting.
> 
> It's not a very elegant solution; but it might help get you that tagging 
> feature that GnuCash lacks.  Hope this helps a little.