My bank doesn't print leading zeros on my checks On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 9:42 AM [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> For those that care, it is perfectly easy to have numbers sort correctly > with an alphanumeric sort, simply include the leading zeros. > If you think your check numbers will never exceed 1000, just number the > checks: 0001, 0002,... 0100, 0101, etc.If you expect to write more than > 1000, add another leading 0. > > Will > > On 2021 Jun 10, at 06-10 01:40:24, flywire <[email protected]> wrote: > > How can special customisation to sort a GnuCash field be justified when it > makes future transitions even more difficult? This field should be sorted > in > a standard way. It's clearly the old *numeric* field for sorting cheques, > and the banks tell us cheques are as good as dead. When it was changed to > alphanumeric the sort order should have changed too, ie 10 before 2. > > I note David's comment on current functionality. Significant changes should > occur at major versions. > > > > -- > Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] > 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 > [email protected] > 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. > -- David Carlson _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] 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.
