That's certainly less onerous than renumbering over and over again, but it's not great. But thank you for one idea!
-------- Original Message -------- From: Geoff <cleanoutmys...@gmail.com> Sent: Thu Feb 25 15:43:52 EST 2021 To: "David T." <sunfis...@yahoo.com>, Gnucash Users <gnucash-user@gnucash.org> Subject: Re: [GNC] Account Sort Order 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 ===== 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 > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
