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Reporting - Hiding archived accounts from chart of accounts list when customising report layouts

Hiding archived accounts from chart of accounts list when customising report layouts, perhaps with a tick box to show or hide the archived accounts. It makes the job of customising layouts so tedious when the old messy chart of accounts come up every time and you can’t hide the archived accounts!

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  • Mandy Sullivan commented  ·   ·  Report

    ALL reports should have the tock box option to hide/show archived and/or inactive items.
    This is an issued not just for CoA but also Pay Items, Employees, etc etc

  • Rachel Robertson commented  ·   ·  Report

    It is so frustrating trying to make custom reports with the prior accountants archived COA displaying - please fix this, why can we elect to hide archived accounts in account transactions but not in the reports? so annoying!

  • Julie Poloni (FM) commented  ·   ·  Report

    Any action yet ? This is the most annoying feature of Xero that when you archive accounts they just still hang around.

  • Kali Boermans commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is a no-brainer to me. It makes it almost impossible to customise reports.

  • Louise Giles commented  ·   ·  Report

    Oh my gosh. This is diabolical. Please fix ASAP! I am having to view codes that were archived 5+ years ago and navigate around them in my report building, and we are talking tonnes of codes.

  • Carol Wilkinson commented  ·   ·  Report

    We shouldnt need to have to vote on something so necessary, it should be in place already! agree it is very time consuming when customising report layouts

  • Ben Mueller commented  ·   ·  Report

    Agree - Accounts are archived for a reason. We dont need them anymore. Why do they display on drop downs??

    There is an option to hide archived accounts on the accounts transaction report, but this does not hide it from drop down selections when selecting account for drop down lists when entering transactions and journals, as well as when doing a customised report.

    This makes no sense. As I said, it is archived for a reason. We no longer need it. There is the ability to restore in the future, so why do we need to see it unless restored or made active again??

  • Glenn Robertson commented  ·   ·  Report

    Totally agree. Logged a support ticket with Xero thinking it was just me but nope. On positive note though they did refer me to this article/request to add my voice. Hopefully the PTB's will action it.

  • Daniel Cates commented  ·   ·  Report

    Completely agree. This feature request is listed like ten separate times on the ideas page here. Xero support should aggregate these like requests and the votes that go with them so that there is an accurate representation of this need. Honestly, this is not a new feature request, it is a request to fix the poorly implemented existing feature where archived accounts are not automatically hidden.

  • Alan Tse commented  ·   ·  Report

    I agree. This is very time consuming when customising report layouts. It would also be great to see the $ values of accounts when customising reports

  • Felicity Charles commented  ·   ·  Report

    I agree. This is very time consuming when customising report layouts. It would also be great to see the $ values of accounts when customising reports

  • Kristie Dimitrijevski commented  ·   ·  Report

    I completely agree. It can be a very tedious and time consuming process when old messy charts of account which have been imported from old accounting systems (and now archived in Xero) appear each time we want to customise report layouts (both advisor reports and general user reports). It would also be very useful to be able to see the current $$ values of accounts when customising reports

  • Daniel Blount commented  ·   ·  Report

    I completely agree. It can be a very tedious and time consuming process when old messy charts of account which have been imported from old accounting systems (and now archived in Xero) appear each time we want to customise report layouts (both advisor reports and general user reports). It would also be very useful to be able to see the current $$ values of accounts when customising reports

  • Dylan Davis commented  ·   ·  Report

    How has something this crucial to report building not been actioned yet!?!?

  • Dylan Davis commented  ·   ·  Report

    I completely agree. It can be a very tedious and time consuming process when old messy charts of account which have been imported from old accounting systems (and now archived in Xero) appear each time we want to customise report layouts (both advisor reports and general user reports). It would also be very useful to be able to see the current $$ values of accounts when customising reports

  • Nicholas Bethune commented  ·   ·  Report

    This seems like a simple change for great benefit. Totally echo the below thoughts of others.

  • Thomas Pinjuh commented  ·   ·  Report

    I fully agree, this process is highly time consuming, especially when old messy charts of account which have been imported from old accounting systems (and now archived in Xero) appear each time i want to customise report layouts. It would also be very useful to be able to see the current $$ values of accounts when customising reports.

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