Comment 4 for bug 734077

Can someone explain to me when and why this functionality was removed since V4? If it was removed intentionally, this is not a bug. If it disappeared by accident, this is a bug. I cannot find anything about it in the release notes.

In V4, if you add an analytic account manually as described in this bug, Account Code gets a value and the value of the sequence in Administration > Configuration > Sequences > Analytic account sequence is increased accordingly.

In in V4, if you create an analytic account hierarchy, the account code reflects this automatically: You get account codes like
View account: Description: client X, code: 2708
View account: Description: client X main actvity Y, 2708 - 001
Normal account:Description: client X, main activity Y, sub activity Z, 2708 - 001 - 001

The codes are extremely valuable when searching and compiling reports from time sheet lines, generating subtotals per subactivity etc.

Manually generating them is error prone.