Sorry Stan, I never received your question to my response. I have version 4.11. I only saw David's response about version 2.6.19 not working the same.
Sent from Samsung Galaxy smartphone. -------- Original message -------- From: Stan Brown <the_stan_br...@fastmail.fm> Date: 8/9/22 9:54 PM (GMT-05:00) To: David Carlson <david.carlson....@gmail.com> Cc: Gyle McCollam <gmccol...@live.com>, gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: Re: [GNC] Order of accounts, auto numbering transactions. Actually there's a preference setting so that I need type only a few characters of the account name, ignoring higher levels. I believe it's associated with Register Defaults ยป Only display leaf account names. Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com On 2022-08-09 15:48, David Carlson wrote: > Version 2.6.19 only works the old way where you need to type a few > characters of each level starting at the top. You need at least 3.x to > get the better autofill in the account field. > > On Tue, Aug 9, 2022, 5:36 PM Stan Brown <the_stan_br...@fastmail.fm > <mailto:the_stan_br...@fastmail.fm>> wrote: > > > On Tuesday, August 9, 2022 at 11:31 AM UTC -800, Stan Brown wrote:> This > may be different in more recent versions, but I've found that > > the drop-down accounts list when I'm entering a transaction is still > > alphabetical and does not follow [i.e. not in the order of] account > > codes. However, when I type the first few letters of the desired > > account name, GC auto-fills the full name. > On 2022-08-09 13:04, Gyle McCollam wrote: > > Stan, > > Just wanted to let you know that you don't even have to type the first > > few letters, any part of the account name will do, GNC will find the > > account name. > > Not for me. I have an account called "AP Bank of America Visa", and no > other accounts with "America" in their names. When entering a > transaction, nothing happens if I type America in the account field, > until I press Tab. At that point the popup asks me if I want to create > the account America. > > I thought maybe you might have been talking about accounts in the > Accounts tab. But there again, initial characters jump to the account, > but typing America does nothing. > > I have GC 2.6.19. Which version do you have? > > Stan Brown > Tehachapi, CA, USA > https://BrownMath.com <https://BrownMath.com> > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org <mailto:gnucash-user@gnucash.org> > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > <https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user> > ----- > 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 ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
