On zaterdag 27 augustus 2011, Yawar Amin wrote: > Hi Florian, > > On 2011-08-24, at 08:32, Florian Haas wrote: > > […] > > Now, while GnuCash does allow for accounts to be assigned a number, > > those numbers are not available to actually be selected in the > > register when making an entry. That complicates matters for users > > using a numbered accounting scheme -- specifically because, as the > > account number identifies the account unequivocally, the account > > hierarchy scheme does not enforce uniqueness among leaf account > > names. In GnuCash, this problem can be worked around by referring to > > accounts by their full name (as opposed to just the leaf account > > names) -- but that's comparatively tedious, compared to identifying an > > account by its number. > > Just want to make sure you know that you can type in an account code in the > account entry field, instead of a full account name. When you enter the > account code, say 4224, and Tab to the next field, GnuCash automatically > substitutes in the full account name. So even though it doesn’t show you a > list of the available account codes, you can still type them in. > Cool !
I wasn't sure of that anymore, but it's a great hidden feature. I wonder if this is somewhere in the documentation already... Geert _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
