Impossible to create chart of account with four digits

[Ronald Portier (Therp)]

OpenERP accounting has a wizard that will set the desired number of digits onder the Chart of Accounts.

However installing accounting (account_accountant) will immediately start a wizard to create the chart of accounts. There is no opportunity to first set the option for the number of digits.

Even cancelling the wizard that creates the chart of accounts does not help, because this will start a default chart of accounts for the main company.

Workaround:

The only way to get a chart of accounts with four digits, is to remove the following info (in this order!):
 - Remove properties referring to the chart of accounts
 - Remove fiscal positions, taxes, tax codes
 - Remove journals
 - Remove chart of account.

Now run configuration wizard to change accounting options
Then run configuration to create desired chart of accounts

[Thorsten Vocks (OpenBig.org) (openbig.org)]

The same happens if you install "sale".

Sales installs account_voucher.
account_voucher installs account.

The only way to prevent against automatic creation of 6 digits is starting (!!)
by installing account_accounting. It is the only possibility to choose the
digits of your account charts.

Imho it is critical bug and even the issue was already in versions before.
Thanks for describing a manual way to fix.