> > Great!
> >
> > I've always wanted this feature in Quicken, but I didn't know it existed.
> > This would be very helpful when you realize that a transaction you could
> > swear you just entered has disappeared, and you're not sure if you haven't
> > entered it yet or if you used the wrong date on the transaction. It's a
> > pain to track it down to correct the date.
> >
> > So how does this feature work in Quicken? And how will this work in Gnucash?
>
> I'm not sure how it works in Quicken. I was referring to just sorting
> by the date of entry, not changing it. But now that I think of it, if
> we switch to sorting by the date of entry, we could go ahead and show
> the date of entry in the left column instead of the 'real' date typed
> in, and allow the user to edit that. Any thoughts about that?
I was also referring to a method of selecting the sort order. Using your
method means that the time of day would have to be added to the date field
when displaying the entry date. That could be confusing, especially when
many transactions could have the same time down to the second (as with
entries from a qif file). It might be simplest to just sort by entry date,
but don't bother trying to edit it, or even display it.
Given my example above, I would rather not have the transaction date disappear
when sorting by entry date. I would like to sort by entry date to help find
errors in the transaction date field. When sorted in this mode I would still
want to be able to edit the transaction date.
Gerald
