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Weekly Dynamic: Shrink an account segment


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I want to stop and hang out for a minute on Leslie Vail’s post on Reshuffling your Account Structure.

Let’s pull out one part of this post. If you need to shrink the size of a segment in GP, you can do it. You’ll need to use PSTL to shrink the data adding spaces where you want to reduce the size.

For example, I had someone recently who had a six digit segment with either 000000 or 000001 in the field. Among other things they wanted to shrink this to either a 0 or a 1. We used PSTL to update these to either ‘1     ‘ or ‘0     ‘.  That’s a 1 or a zero with 5 spaces behind it. We didn’t have to force the spaces, just updating to 1 or 0 left the account with the blank spaces.

After that we run Administration | Utilities | System | Reconcile and reconcile shrinks up the accounts. You don’t have to change your account segment setup, reconcile does that as part of the process.

Leslie covers a lot more in her post, but I wanted to highlight just that portion because I think it’s important all by itself.

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