• Kalido
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Topic: Can We have an Ex. for New Multi Level Types

Hello Joe,

Can you give us please a simple example of the new Group Accounts Multi Level Feature.


And how we can profit from the new facility of :
  " GL Account Types (Groups) allows up to 10 digits  " ?


From other side is it possible from your side to include an option for changing :

id (chart_types) to Character in Config.php ?


Thanks

khaled

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Re: Can We have an Ex. for New Multi Level Types

Please look into the Wiki regarding this.



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Re: Can We have an Ex. for New Multi Level Types

I can't find an example in Wiki for this new feature... :-(

I am setting up a test company, and managed to enter a 2-level account type system (the majority of account types was 3-digit, so the same length, but still one above the other...) in 2.2.2 already (without that setting). I've read that it should now be possible to set more than 2 levels, but am still not sure what exactly this setting does (or, does it mean only that we have more digits now, like INT instead of TINY INT or so?).

As said already (in another topic), I'd also like to have an option to set id for chart types as charatcters.

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Re: Can We have an Ex. for New Multi Level Types

Please look once again. I was sure it had been updated smile.

Look under Banking and General Ledger, Account Groups.

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Re: Can We have an Ex. for New Multi Level Types

Hello,

believe me joe, classes/types are better interpreted by the accountants when

they are characters. I think it is widely used in europe and middle east areas.

besides it facilitate the logic of hierarchy sub levels.

For myself, I made the necessary modifications. it was not so complex.
I'm always ready to send it to you if you find the idea interesting to include it in next versions.

Khaled

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Re: Can We have an Ex. for New Multi Level Types

joe wrote:

Please look once again. I was sure it had been updated smile.

Look under Banking and General Ledger, Account Groups.

/Joe

joe,

that's all I've found:
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Allow using of multi level sub-types when digits are of same length in account types

The current account types setup with sub-levels only allowed 2 levels in the current system.

By setting up the account types with same digit lenghts in id and exactly in the order you want them presented in COA and reports and with the sub-levels you want them belong to it is now possible to use at least 4 or 5 levels. Having more is not appropriate.

Condition for doing that:

Set the variable, $use_new_account_types = 1; in your config.php
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It is not an example, just a (brief) description of the setting... BTW, it is more or less just the same as introduction of this setting (feature) in NEWS:
https://frontaccounting.com/wbt/pages/posts/release-2.2.3121.php

I believe Kalido has seen that already (as I did), but asked for an example to understand exactly what one can achieve through this setting.

Or, is the only difference that with this setting we have now a possibility to construct 4-5 levels of classes instead of only 2 (as until now)?

In this case, why this is an option at all? To be more precise, am I loosing something if I set this option to 1 altough I have (need) only 2 levels? If not, why would it be good to have it set to 0 at all?

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Re: Can We have an Ex. for New Multi Level Types

The good news is that you don't have to do anything at all if you are satisfied with the Chart of Accounts and Balance Sheets or Profit/Loss Statements as they are.

The old way (and the way FA works without any change):
                                Parent                                Level
1     Assets                          Class                 
1     Short term                -1 Type/Group               1
5     Current Assets            1 Type/Group               2
1065 Bank                         5  Account
2      Long term                 -1  Type/Group              1
1500 Inventory                   2  Account             
a.s.o

First there are classes. Then there are Types/Groups in 1-2 levels. And finally the Account itself.
In this example the 5 Current Assets is a sub-group of Type/Group 1 Short term.

The new way (With Group/Types of the same length)
                                   Parent                                  Level
1          Assets                          Class
1000    Short term                -1 Type/Group               1
1001    Current Assets      1000  Type/Group               2
1002    Bank/Cash            1001  Type/Group              3
1003    Bank                    1002  Type/Group               4
1065    Cheque Account    1003   Account   
1100    Long term                 -1  Type/Group              1
a.s.o

Here you can have 4-5 levels of types/groups. But the Types/Groups must be in sorted order inside the class.
This example is somewhat exaggerated. In my opinion, I am satisfied with the old way of grouping.
But some countries/organizations may require more than the 2 levels we can handle in the old way.
Therefore this new was implemented.

The Wiki has been updated with this example.

/Joe