# Weekly Dynamic:Auto Populate Account Descriptions

- URL: https://dynamicaccounting.net/weekly-dynamicauto-populate-account-descriptions/
- Date: 2006-07-06
- Topics: Tips & Hidden Features
- Dynamics GP versions mentioned: GP 9
- Type: original article

Dynamics GP v9.0 has a new feature to allow you to automatically populate the account description based on the segments. This is a great feature to give you a consistent chart of accounts.

In a nutshell, once you’ve setup your account segments and their meanings in Tools-Setup-Financial-Segment you’re ready to go. There is supposed to be a way to add these on the fly as well but I haven’t found it yet.

After this, when you create a new account in Cards-Financial-Account, the description will populated based on the segments. So if your account is 0000-1100-01 and the segment meanings are Cash-Bob’s Bank-Operating, that’s what will apear in the description. It takes alot of the guess work out of abbreviations.

For those of you with messy charts descriptions like me, Mass Modify (Cards-Financial-Mass Modify) will let you clean up your Segments now as well.

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