Cross-reporting ?

[Derek Atkins]

"Thiers Botelho" <thiers at fosfertil-ultrafertil.com.br> writes:

> Well Derek,
> 
> summing up from your own words . . .
> 
> >Well, you could do this by naming account's "Mary's Medicine", but then
> >you couldn't search for "all medicine accounts".
> 
> --means I can't group sub-accounts from different accounts ,

Well, it means you can't group them if you name them this way.  If, however,
you named them:

        Expense:Medicine:Mary
        Expense:Medicine:Chuck

Then you could group them more easily...

> AND
> 
> >This certainly looks like a "transaction report" to me..  Most of it
> >is there, but I don't know if it hooks into the action field.
> 
> --means I can't generate a report tied to this Action field (pending 
> further clarification).

It means the code that exists today doesn't do it, but writing the
code to add this grouping is _relatively_ simple...  The reports are
easily changed (even easier if you know scheme).

> >From all this discussion and nice tips from others in this list, I gather 
> that, regarding the particular mode d'emploi I wish, I'll be better off 
> with Quicken.
> 
> However, since this is not the only point to consider in the choice of 
> accounting software, I'm not yet 100% sure of which one I'll use. But that 
> tends to be the general direction.

FWIW: people who try to hold "well, I'll just use quicken" over our
heads as if it's a threat really grates on me.  Either use Quicken
or use GnuCash -- it's your choice.  But don't keep using Quicken as
a threat.  If you're happy using Quicken then by all means continue to
do so.  I'm not stopping you.  It's not my goal in life to make all
Quicken users want to jump ship.

> Thank you v.m. for your time and assistance. I might be back . . .

And then again, you might not...   *grumble*  more "threats".

> Thiers

-derek

PS: You probably haven't meant the "well, if I can't do it then I'll
just have to use quicken" as a threat, but it certainly comes across
that way.  I just wanted to point out one potential interpretation of
your words.

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