[GNC] Transaction ordering on num field

[davidbrown.rdps at photos.bozeat.biz]

..... put a 100 as prefix .... last you a few years ... looking at an old CQ book and that is how mine are numbered.

Haven't used one for quite a while now though 😊 ....

David

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From: gnucash-user <gnucash-user-bounces+davidbrown.rdps=photos.bozeat.biz at gnucash.org> On Behalf Of David Carlson
Sent: 10 June 2021 15:46
To: will at theprescotts.com
Cc: GnuCash Users <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Subject: Re: [GNC] Transaction ordering on num field

My bank doesn't print leading zeros on my checks

On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 9:42 AM will at theprescotts.com <will at theprescotts.com>
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 <flywire0 at gmail.com> 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.
>
>
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