[moneytalks] Beta: Idea, Ability to restrict view to check number order

Hello all and MT staff,



Thanks Rob for your reply regarding the S key in status column.  I've been 
thinking for a while of the following possibility.



How about allowing a command to give a restricted view of all checks in check 
number order. The program can search the item field, look for all items that 
start with a digit and have no trailing blanks or spaces afterwards, then sort 
them in numerical order, lowest to highest, and then restrict the view to these 
results. Perhaps a person can even be allowed to sort the list in reverse 
numerical order, but admittedly all they'd have to do is jump to the other end 
of the restricted view with control plus home or end. Can this check-order 
restricted register be printed or brailed? No embosser here to test for that. 
I'm guessing it can, that any view of the register can be embossed or printed.  
Is this so?



Reason for me thinking of this is that I have checks written at different times 
with a reader.  Though I write them in numerical order, I often mail them on 
different dates.  When I mail a given check, I update the date in the register 
to the date I actually mailed the check.  This way I am able to look at the 
register and definitively know the day I mailed a given check.  But this leads 
to check orders being non-sequencial.



If this were implemented, it would also mean that for this particular 
restricted view, the date column might be non-sequencial, and that would be 
very different than usual in MT.  But it would make it easy, for instance, for 
a sighted reader or assistant to update a print register, if one keeps that for 
a back up in print form.



Right now, I can limit check views by typing in the first few digits of a 
check.  For example, 81 typed in the item field shows all check from 810 
through 819, but they are still out of numerical order.  I can type 8 and get 
all checks that are in the 800 range too, of course.  But still out of order.



Just an idea.  Any thoughts?



TIA

Steve

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